Normal Ecology Set (3.0 Population Set)

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Across
  1. 2. Processes of the cellular life cycle encompassing nuclear replication, division, and cytokinesis;
  2. 4. The propensity for increasing genetic diversity (5,4)
  3. 6. A low density population predisposed to processes of spatial colonisation and population growth
  4. 8. The applied physical sciences concerned with the study of heat and temperature relative to energy and work
  5. 11. The biological process of creation in which new offspring are issued by the parent organism; may be via asexual or sexual methods
  6. 14. The functional basic unit of life; the basic structural unit of all organisms. Involves a basic components of nucleus, cytoplasmic material and a semi-permeable membrane
  7. 15. The metabolic processes that convert glucose (sugar) to ATP.
  8. 16. The natural process by which plants convert light energy into chemical energy
  9. 17. The natural processes of accretion; a positive change in size over time
  10. 18. A substance that causes and accelerates a chemical reaction
  11. 20. The dispersion of biological species over a given geographic scale
  12. 23. The branch of biological sciences concerned with the study of chemical structure, function and interactions of biological macro-molecules within living organisms
  13. 25. The branch of life sciences concerned with the study of structure, function and chemistry of cells
  14. 26. The selective barrier formed as a bioactive outer covering of a cell or cell organelle
  15. 28. The predomination of aggregate biomass (7,4)
  16. 29. A generalisation defined by ratio representation and relative proportions
Down
  1. 1. a high-density population subject to intense competition for resources and stochastic dominance
  2. 2. An aggregate atmospheric zone constituted by the combination of many microclimate systems (4,7)
  3. 3. An organised and contiguous living system composed of one or more mutually interdependent parts
  4. 5. The metabolic processes that convert a carbohydrate to sugars (ADP & AMP)
  5. 7. A type of growth habit that is responsive to gravity.
  6. 9. The natural processes by which chemical reactions within an organism synthesize organic compounds
  7. 10. The contest and rivalry between biological organisms for resources and an ecological niche
  8. 12. The cellular material constituted by cytosol (cellular gel) and the internal sub-structures of the cell (organelles)
  9. 13. Processes of sexual reproduction involving synaptic exchange, termed syndesis
  10. 19. Acronym for the chemical compound adenosine monophosphate
  11. 21. A miniature world representative of the larger specimen
  12. 22. The rate of change of a physical quantity; the measure of a slope
  13. 24. A local atmospheric zone differentiable from the atmospheric conditions of the surrounding environment (4,7)
  14. 27. Acronym for the chemical compound adenosine triphosphate