Features and Characteristics of life

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Across
  1. 6. releasing chemical energy from complex reactions
  2. 8. taking in of food
  3. 10. organism uses material from environment and converts it to something it can use
  4. 11. condition of maintaining constant internal environment
  5. 13. sexual reproduction producing offspring with only one parent
  6. 14. removal of waste substances from an organism
  7. 16. a living thing
  8. 17. increase in size of an organism
Down
  1. 1. chemical substances in food that an organism needs
  2. 2. breakdown of food into similar forms
  3. 3. combine substances chemically to form complex substances
  4. 4. involves activities that control and coordinate an organism
  5. 5. producing new offspring
  6. 7. study of life
  7. 9. reproduction involves 2 parents offspring not identical to parent
  8. 12. all chemical reactions occurring within cells of an organism
  9. 15. substances entering / leaving cell