Across
- 2. Process of using oxygen to release energy from food
- 3. A trait that helps an organism survive
- 6. Breaks down dead material and recycles nutrients
- 8. Large molecules that do most jobs in cells
- 11. Process of making more organisms
- 12. Molecule that carries genetic instructions (abbrev.)
- 13. Thread-like structure made of DNA
- 14. Any living thing (plant, animal, microbe)
- 16. Organism that eats other organisms for energy
- 17. Community of organisms plus their environment
- 18. The basic unit of life
- 19. Tiny single-celled organisms; some help and some harm
- 20. Tiny agent that can infect living cells (not a cell)
Down
- 1. A segment of DNA that codes for a trait
- 4. Process plants use to turn light into food
- 5. Where plants make food using sunlight
- 7. Place where a plant or animal lives
- 9. Organism that makes food (like plants)
- 10. "Powerhouse" of the cell that makes ATP
- 15. Controls the cell; houses DNA