Across
- 4. atomic, molecular, cellular, tissue, organ, organismal, group, population, community, ecosystem, landscape, and biosphere levels
- 6. A type of cell division that results in four daughter cells.
- 8. your body's command center
- 9. nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again.
- 11. is a molecule that contains the instructions or recipe that directs the cells to make a protein using its natural machinery
- 13. when the severity of disturbance is insufficient to remove all the existing vegetation and soil from a site
- 17. is defined as movement of a solute from a region of high electrochemical potential on one side of the cell membrane to a region of lower electrochemical potential on the opposite side.
- 18. Delivers oxygen and nutrients to cells and takes away wastes.
- 19. animals that get their energy by eating plants or other animals.
- 22. A form of viral reproduction involving the fusion of the nucleic acid of a bacteriophage with that of a host, followed by proliferation of the resulting prophage.
- 24. One of the two cycles of viral reproduction
- 25. cycle The nitrogen cycle is a repeating cycle of processes during which nitrogen moves through both living and non-living things
- 26. a mechanism of evolution
- 27. molecules that combine to form proteins.
- 28. diagrams which depict the relationships between different groups of taxa called “clades”.
Down
- 1. the movement of ions or molecules across a cell membrane into a region of higher concentration, assisted by enzymes and requiring energy.
- 2. happens when a new patch of land is created or exposed for the first time
- 3. ribonucleic acid, a nucleic acid present in all living cells.
- 5. A complex network of glands and organs
- 7. A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells
- 10. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water.
- 12. Photosynthesizing organisms
- 14. The study of living organisms
- 15. A self-Replicating material that is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes
- 16. The process a cell goes through each time it divides
- 20. the close associations formed between pairs of species
- 21. he science of classification, but more strictly the classification of living and extinct organisms
- 23. A chemical process in which oxygen is used to make energy from carbohydrates