Across
- 2. a group of organisms that can reproduce naturally with one another and create fertile offspring.
- 6. it is further divided into one or more orders
- 7. the global variety of species and ecosystems and the ecological processes of which they are part
- 8. multicellular organisms in the kingdom Plantae that use photosynthesis to make their own food.
- 9. taxonomic rank that is composed of smaller groups called phyla (or divisions, in plants)
- 11. an area of territory owned or controlled by a ruler or government.
- 14. a taxonomic group of any rank, such as a species, family, or class.
- 16. A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness.
- 17. a living thing made up of one or more cells and able to carry on the activities of life
- 18. given to the organism in a particular language and region of the world.
- 22. The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method
Down
- 1. biological classification ranking between family and species, consisting of structurally or phylogenetically related species or a single isolated species exhibiting unusual differentiation
- 3. establishment of a hierarchical system of categories on the basis of presumed natural relationships among organisms.
- 4. any of the eukaryotic multicellular organisms of the biological kingdom Animalia.
- 5. the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations and relies on the process of natural selection
- 10. marine invertebrates within the class Anthozoan of the phylum Cnidaria.
- 12. the science of life.
- 13. nomenclature: a system of nomenclature in which each species of animal or plant receives a name of two terms of which the first identifies the genus to which it belongs and the second the species itself.
- 15. branch of biology that deals with the study of plants, including their structure, properties, and biochemical processes.
- 19. a scheme of classification, especially a hierarchical classification, in which things are organized into groups or types
- 20. a branch of biology that deals with the heredity and variation of organisms
- 21. the scientific study of the behavior, structure, physiology, classification, and distribution of animals.