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