Across
- 4. Help with decay, cycling nutrients back into the environment
- 5. Open water primary producers
- 10. Stores genetic material as single stranded RNA
- 12. Produces own food
- 13. Incredibly important for producing O2
- 15. flagellated , spherical cells of calcium carbonate
- 16. Obtains energy from producer
- 17. Outer shell of a virus
- 19. Two words, no space. A type of virus that induces its nucleic acid into the DNA of the host cell
- 20. Can infect other microbes
Down
- 1. Smallest of true living organisms and the oldest forms of life
- 2. Marine protozoans with calcium carbonate shell
- 3. Protozoan with hair-like cilia for locomotion and feeing
- 6. Formed by cyanobacterias
- 7. Protozoan that secretes glass skeleton
- 8. Star-shaped internal skeleton made of silica
- 9. Two flagella and lack a skeleton
- 11. Two words, no space. A short chain of genetic material
- 14. Two words, no space. Burrow into calcareous rocks and coral skeletons
- 18. Produces “red tides” and other harmful algal blooms