Across
- 5. tubers are packed full of this tasty nutrient
- 6. underground sections of plant swollen with food
- 8. an organism that can reproduce by runners
- 10. producing offspring from unfertilized egg cells
- 12. a plant that can reproduce using spores
- 13. how organisms create new individuals
- 14. form of sexual reproduction used by animals
- 16. tiny cells produced by the millions that carry DNA away from the parent
- 18. genetic ___; advantage of sexual reproduction
- 19. offspring develops as growth on parent and then detaches
- 20. one or more new individual organisms resulting from reproduction
- 21. form of sexual reproduction by plants using flowers
Down
- 1. remain alive underground during winter after the rest of the plant dies
- 2. a unicellular organism that reproduces by fission
- 3. an organism that reproduces by budding
- 4. cell division or ___: a single cell splits into two cells
- 7. side shoots which extend to the ground and root themselves
- 9. asexual reproduction takes less time and ___.
- 11. number of parents needed for sexual reproduction
- 15. offspring of asexual reproduction are genetically ___ to the parent
- 17. an organism that can reproduce using tubers