Across
- 6. Producing new offspring
- 8. Process by which materials enter and leave cells or get moved around in the organism
- 9. The breakdown of food materials into simpler forms
- 12. Chemical substances in food that an organism needs
- 13. removal of an organism's metabolic wastes
- 17. Producing new offspring identical to the parents: involves one parent
- 18. Increase in size of an organism
Down
- 1. Involves two parents: off spring are not identical to the parent
- 2. Involves activities that control and coordinate an organism: they help maintain homeostasis
- 3. The process of releasing chemical energy from complex reactions
- 4. Involves getting rid of undigested food from the body
- 5. The study of life
- 7. Condition of maintaining a constant internal environment
- 10. Something capable of of living on its own: it has all the characteristics of life
- 11. The taking in of food
- 14. Combining simple substances to make more complex substances
- 15. Involves all the chemical reactions/activities carried on in an organism
- 16. How an organism takes materials from the environment and converts them to something it can use