Properties of Living Things

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Across
  1. 3. a change in the genetic composition of a population over successive generations
  2. 8. an organism which consists of a single cell which performs all of the vital functions of an organism
  3. 10. non-living components in an ecosystem, for example water, soil, and the atmosphere
  4. 13. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
Down
  1. 1. an organism made up of many cells which perform all vital functions of an organism
  2. 2. the capacity of a physical system to perform work (such as a body)
  3. 4. physical characteristics which are passed down generations through aquiring the genetic information from ones parents
  4. 5. any substance made up of atoms and molecules which occupies space and has mass
  5. 6. selection heritable traits that help organisms survive and reproduce become more common in a population over time
  6. 7. also known as deoxyribonucleic acid, ____ is the hereditary material found in all living organisms
  7. 9. living things in an ecosystem, for example: plants, animals, and bacteria
  8. 11. the basic and fundamental building blocks of all organisms
  9. 12. made up of DNA, _____ are the basic physical and functional unit of heredity