biology crossword

1. instrument that has a magnifying lens for inspecting objects too small to see with ones eye
3. The maintenance or growth of dispersed cells in a medium after removal from the body
4. an act or instance of noticing
8. as budding, fission, or spore formation, not involving the union of gametes.
10. mere assumption or guess
13. living organisms from nonliving matter
14. to devolope gradually
16. knowledge of the physical world
18. A manipulated variable is the independent variable in an experiment.
20. dependent variable

2. reproduction involving the union of gametes.
5. the sum of the physical and chemical processes in an organism
6. any trial or test of a hypothesis under carefully managed conditions
7. decimal measuring system based on the meter
9. guess or conjecture
11. the act or process of inferring
12. the physiological system of higher animals, to maintain internal stability
15. a usually microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic matiral
17. the science of life or living matter in all its forms
19. a plural of datum.