LIFE CYCLE OF LIVING ORGANISMS

2. a sperm cell joins an egg cell to begin a new life.
4. a succession of events that is not interrupted.
6. producing eggs that hatch outside the body, as birds, most reptiles, and fishes.
9. The transfer of pollen from the anther to the stigma.
12. diet of both plant and animal food.
13. changes in the physical development of an organism, such as size or shape.
15. natural process by which organisms make more organisms like themselves.
17. the young of a person, animal, or plant.
20. the radicle grows into the soil, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
23. to develop into a plant or individual, as a seed, spore, or bulb.
24. the fertilized ovule of a flowering plant, containing an embryo or rudimentary plant.
26. class of individuals with common characteristics and that can reproduce.
27. a natural covering, as a skin, shell of a seed.
28. the development from a simpler to a more complex stage.

1. to begin to grow;as a plant from a seed.
3. feelings are often accompanied by physiological changes .
5. period of development in the uterus, from conception until birth.
7. any organism that is born, grows, reproduces, and dies.
8. giving birth to living babies.
9. the time when your body begins to develop and change as you move from kid to young adult.
10. nutritive matter in seed-plant ovules, derived from the embryo sac.
11. a small quantity of liquid, especially water; enough liquid to moisten.
14. the process of birth, growing up, and death of a living thing.
16. the hollow organ where the baby develops during pregnancy.
18. food, nutriment, or sustenance.
19. the ascending axis of a plant, grows in an opposite direction to the root.
21. the average length of life of a living thing.
22. process by which an organism is kept in favorable conditions to grow & develop.
23. special carriers of human traits; the basic physical units of heredity.
25. to grow forth from the ground, as a stem.