Vocab Week 4

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Across
  1. 2. animals that can maintain a constant body temperature, regardless of the temperature of their environment.
  2. 5. a preparation that contains a weakened or dead microbe that causes a disease and is given to an animal to stimulate its immune system to produce antibodies.
  3. 7. an animal that is between one and two years old.
  4. 8. adapting wild animals through selective breeding and genetic modification to live alongside humans over generations.
  5. 9. the first step in the digestive process in which food is broken down into smaller pieces, both mechanically and chemically.
  6. 10. organisms that cannot regulate their body temperature with their environment.
Down
  1. 1. a primitive system of defense against the pathogens to which they are susceptible.
  2. 3. an organism that lives on or in another organism, called the host, and obtains nutrients from it.
  3. 4. animals are fed an energy-dense diet so that they will grow rapidly, add muscle/meat to their frame, and optimize fat cover in preparation for slaughter.
  4. 6. The overall structure and appearance concerned with a breed standard.