Scientific Method & Characteristics of Life

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Across
  1. 4. Well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations and hypotheses.
  2. 6. An experiment in which only one variable is changed.
  3. 7. A change in allele frequencies in a population over time.
  4. 9. act of noticing and describing events or processes in a careful, orderly way.
  5. 11. An inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival.
  6. 13. A type of reproduction when offspring are clones of the parent.
  7. 14. A change in an organism's surroundings that causes the organism to react.
  8. 16. The smallest, functional unit of life.
Down
  1. 1. Maintain a stable, internal environment.
  2. 2. Process in which cells become specialized in structure and function
  3. 3. variable that is deliberately changed in an experiment.
  4. 5. DNA, the universal genetic code.
  5. 8. Structure determines _____
  6. 10. information gathered in an experiment
  7. 12. DNA codes for _____
  8. 15. All the reactions that occur as your body breaks down food into molecules that cells can use.