Scientific Method and Characteristics of Life

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Across
  1. 2. A change in allele frequencies in a population over time.
  2. 5. A type of reproduction when offspring are clones of the parent.
  3. 7. A group that is tested on everything except for the changed variable
  4. 9. Process in which cells become specialized in structure and function.
  5. 12. An inherited characteristic that increases an organisms chance of survival.
  6. 14. A type of reproduction when two cells must unite to create offspring.
  7. 16. A scientific explanation for a set of observations that can be tested in ways that support or reject it.
  8. 19. All of the reactions that occur as your body breaks down food into molecules that cells can use.
  9. 20. Variable that is deliberately changed in an experiment.
  10. 21. Maintaining a stable, internal environment.
  11. 22. Data that is in numbers.
Down
  1. 1. DNA, the universal genetic code.
  2. 3. Information gathered in an experiment is...?
  3. 4. Data that cannot be counted or measured.
  4. 6. Structure determines...?
  5. 8. The act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way
  6. 10. A well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations and hypotheses.
  7. 11. A variable that changes in response to the independent variable.
  8. 13. A change in an organism's surroundings that cause the organism to react.
  9. 15. An experiment in which only one variable is changed
  10. 17. The smallest, functional unit of life.
  11. 18. DNA codes for...?