Across
- 2. a membrane-bound organelle that contains genetic material (DNA) of eukaryotic organisms.
- 5. the process by which living things absorb carbon from the atmosphere, sediments and soil, or food.
- 8. a gas that absorbs and emits radiant energy within the thermal infrared range.
- 11. DNA is made up of two strands that are twisted together.
- 14. process in which new organisms are created, by combining the genetic information from two individuals of different sexes.
- 15. a type of cell division that results in four daughter cells each with half the number of chromosomes of the parent cell.
- 16. cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number and kind of chromosomes as the parent.
- 17. a variant form of a gene.
- 18. everything that exists anywhere
Down
- 1. a DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
- 3. CO2
- 4. physical substance in general, as distinct from mind and spirit; (in physics) that which occupies space and possesses rest mass, especially as distinct from energy.
- 6. the haploid set of chromosomes in a gamete or microorganism, or in each cell of a multicellular organism.
- 7. a cell or organism that has paired chromosomes, one from each parent.
- 9. type of reproduction which does not involve the fusion of gametes or change in the number of chromosomes.
- 10. a fuel formed by natural processes
- 12. a modular space station in low Earth orbit.
- 13. the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin of the universe
