Across
- 1. segments of DNA that contain the instructions for making proteins and determining an organism's traits
- 4. the way that an organism, or cell maintains homeostasis following an environmental disruption.
- 5. The differences between the individuals in a species is called variation. Variation helps a species to survive, by causing individuals of a species to be genetically and physically different.
- 7. a change in the DNA sequence of an organism.
- 8. an organism that helps define an entire ecosystem.
- 11. a set of interactions between organisms and species to get a limited resource (ex: competing for resources and/or food)
Down
- 2. Better adapted organisms will survive and reproduce. Survival of the fittest.
- 3. Process that happens in the chloroplast where sunlight is turned into energy.
- 6. a particular characteristic of an organism.
- 9. produces their own food (Ex: plants and algae)
- 10. Consumes other organisms to get energy.