Across
- 5. medicine that prevents disease
- 6. a natural underground layer of rock, coal, or other material
- 9. yellow powder from flowers
- 10. live in
- 13. basic idea
- 17. an attribute, quality, or characteristic of something
- 20. jelly-like mass that fills a cell
- 21. give medical help
- 22. the study of how characteristics are passed down from one generation to another
- 24. what is passed down from one generation to the next
- 25. threadlike structure with genetic information
- 26. a microorganism, especially one which causes disease
- 27. put into groups
Down
- 1. academic area
- 2. a small amount of a substance that a doctor or scientist collects in order to examine it
- 3. forever
- 4. larva of a fly
- 7. give a general idea of
- 8. to gradually become bad or weak or to decompose because of natural causes like bacteria or age
- 11. one particular area (of science, etc.)
- 12. say what will happen in the future
- 14. giving liquid through a needle
- 15. not exactly
- 16. theories
- 18. children
- 19. serious illness
- 23. develop gradually
- 27. the smallest basic structural and functional unit of life