Across
- 2. what is released by all organisms as they expend energy
- 3. domesticating animals and plants and using genetic engineering for the purposes of making life easier
- 4. when a new strain of virus is introduce and it spreads worldwide because there is no immunity
- 7. as we move up the food chain, the population of the species ________, and therefore, it has a lower biomass
- 9. species of different populations interacting together
- 11. the name of a level in a food chain
- 13. non-living limiting factors that determine the survival of a species
- 14. a symbiotic relationship where one species benefits and the other is unaffected
- 16. the code the white blood cells obtain from the pathogens in order to kill them
- 18. a fungus that is used to make bread
- 20. an organism that lives on or in another species
Down
- 1. occupy the lowest trophic level in a food pyramid
- 5. a non-living germ that inserts its DNA into active cells and cannot be killed with antibiotics
- 6. the initials of the body's cellular defense against pathogens
- 8. what the white blood cells create to fight pathogens
- 10. the only biotic limiting factor that is independent of the density of the species
- 12. the earliest known organism, no nucleus, bacteria
- 15. a symbiotic relationship where both species benefit
- 17. any organism that contains a clearly defined nucleus
- 19. the factors that determine the survival of a species
