Across
- 2. say something in answer to a remark or accusation, typically in a sharp, angry, or wittily incisive manner.
- 5. a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something.
- 9. a living organism of the kind exemplified by trees.
- 10. a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific signs or symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury.
- 11. the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
- 13. the center of a cell.
- 17. the branch of zoology concerned with reptiles and amphibians.
- 21. the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
- 22. the physical structure of a person or an animal.
Down
- 1. find out how heavy someone or something is.
- 3. a supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.
- 4. physical substance in general.
- 6. the planet on which we live.
- 7. the smallest structural and functional unit of an organism.
- 8. a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole.
- 10. facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis.
- 12. a straight-sided, optically clear container for holding liquid samples in a spectrophotometer or other instrument.
- 14. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
- 15. an infective agent that typically consists of a nucleic acid molecule in a protein coat, is too small to be seen by light microscopy, and is able to multiply only within the living cells of a host.
- 16. not consistent or having a fixed pattern; liable to change.
- 18. the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
- 19. a laboratory.
- 20. deoxyribonucleic acid.
- 22. the study of living organisms.
