Life Science Mid-term Crossword

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. An oily organic compound insoluble in water but soluble in organic solvents (plural) (6)
  2. 3. A fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter (7)
  3. 6. To consider in detail and subject to an ___ in order to discover essential features or meaning (7)
  4. 8. A porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals (plural) (7)
  5. 11. Metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via (11)
  6. 12. A body part made of tissues working together to perform a function. (5)
  7. 13. Magnifier of the image of small objects (10)
  8. 15. Living or active in the absence of free oxygen (9)
  9. 16. Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific (plural) (7)

Down

  1. 2. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (plural) (8)
  2. 4. Armor plate that protects the nose (9)
  3. 5. Bottom part something stands on; a safe spot in baseball (4)
  4. 7. Having cells with `good' or membrane-bound nuclei (10)
  5. 9. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)
  6. 10. The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (5)
  7. 14. Diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to (7)