Life Science

3. the group of angiosperms that have vascular bundles in a ring around the outer portion of the stem
7. an inherited trait that helps an animal survive to reproduce
10. the group of plants that produces cones
11. a bacterium's DNA and ribosomes enclosed in a tough case that can survive unfavorable conditions
13. a sperm cell or an egg cell
17. an organism that eats other organisms or particles of food
18. the preserved remains of plants and animals
19. the molecule that contains important information for making proteins and helps regulate many cellular processes
20. a molecule made of long chains of sugars that makes up the cell walls of plants

1. an organism that makes its food using energy form its environment
2. the process in which one bacterium shares a plasmid with another
4. the protein coat that surrounds the nucleic acid of a virus
5. the process of the cell cycle that ensures that each new daughter cell produced has the same number and kinds of genes as the original parent cell
6. the group of plants that produces flowers and fruit
8. the portion of the cell cycle during which the cell grows and carries out its normal functions
9. the smallest working unit of an organism
12. a structure produced by some plants to protect the embryo
14. a nucleic acid surrounded by a protein coat that uses other cells to reproduce
15. a set of three nucleotides in a strand of mRNA that codes for one of the amino acids
16. the overarching narrative that a person uses to see and interpret the world