Module 2, Biology

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like (3)
  2. 8. An animal or plant that lives in or on a host (8)
  3. 9. The state of being joined together (11)
  4. 11. Tiny single-celled living things, some of which cause illness (8)
  5. 13. A qualitative change (14)
  6. 14. An architectural partition with a height and length greater than its thickness (4)
  7. 15. A lash-like appendage used for locomotion (9)
  8. 16. Food and nutrients the body needs to grow (9)

Down

  1. 1. Any disease-producing agent (8)
  2. 3. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  3. 4. The protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus (9)
  4. 5. Partial sterilization of foods at a temperature that destroys harmful microorganisms without major (14)
  5. 6. The metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules (11)
  6. 7. A metric unit of weight equal to one thousandth of a kilogram (4)
  7. 10. A pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants (8)
  8. 12. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots (5)