Variety of Living Organisms

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Across
  1. 2. a single-celled fungus
  2. 6. a network of many hyphae
  3. 8. corkscrew like structures used by bacteria for movement
  4. 9. simple, single celled organisms whose cells lack a nucleus
  5. 10. a single-celled protoctist with animal-like cells
  6. 13. photosynthetic protoctists
  7. 14. an organelle which carries out photosynthesis
  8. 16. a disease causing micro-organism
  9. 18. a small non-living infectious agent made of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat that reproduces by taking over a host cell
  10. 19. a 'dustbin kingdom' contaianing any organism whose cells contain a nucleus but which is not an animal, plant or fungus
  11. 20. animals with an exoskeleton and jointed limbs
Down
  1. 1. a small loop of DNA in the cytoplasm of a bacterium that contains non-essential genes
  2. 3. multicellular organisms which feed by consuming other organisms and whose cells lack cell walls
  3. 4. organisms which may be single celled or multicellular, whose cells have a cell wall made of chitin
  4. 5. animals with a backbone
  5. 7. the organelle in which aerobic respiration takes place
  6. 11. multicellular organisms which make their own food through photosynthesis
  7. 12. describes the lifestyle of an organism such as a bacterium or fungus which feeds by secreting digestive enzymes onto the organic material on which it is growing and then absorbs the products of digestion
  8. 15. long, threadlike filaments made of many cells joined end-to-end, found in fungi
  9. 17. an organelle which synthesises proteins from amino acids