Across
- 4. small pieces of a plant cut off and rooted to produce new identical plants
- 5. to soi
- 7. physical or psychological characteristics of an organism
- 10. part of the plant stem between nodes
- 12. substance (as manure or a chemical mixture) used to make soil more fertile
- 13. process by which plants emerge from a seed and begin growth
Down
- 1. and partially decayed plant material and microbes which
- 2. substance comprised of decomposed plant and animal residues,
- 3. two identical copies of a single chromosome which are connected by centromeres
- 6. vertical slice of soil in its natural position
- 8. structure, greater water holding capacity, diversity and greater nutrient
- 9. region of the chromosome where microtubules attach
- 11. gene or genetic material from one plant which has been place in another