Across
- 7. plants with tubes in roots, stems, and leaves
- 9. can anchor plants to soil and store food
- 10. single reproductive cells that grow into new plants
- 12. no tubes, pass water and nutrients from cell to cell
- 13. a characteristic that increases an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce
- 14. are thick and grow straight down, ex. dandelion
- 15. process by which plants make their own food
- 16. is a growing plant
Down
- 1. a random change in a gene
- 2. to sprout
- 3. organelles that contain chlorophyll
- 4. a hard skeleton on the outside of the body
- 5. is tiny plant within seed
- 6. helps plants use light energy to produce sugars
- 8. holes on the surface of a plant leaf through which gases pass
- 11. air hole on the skin of an insect’s body
- 16. the predictable order of changes in communities after a change occurs