Biology Final Review

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 5. Tiniest unit of living things (4)
  2. 6. Something that is likely to vary (8)
  3. 8. Magnifier of the image of small objects (10)
  4. 9. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  5. 11. The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals (10)
  6. 12. A nucleotide derived from adenosine that occurs in muscle tissue (3)
  7. 13. Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes (7)
  8. 15. Located at or near or coming from the earth's poles (5)
  9. 16. Understatement for rhetorical effect (7)

Down

  1. 1. A chemical substance that is present at the start of a chemical ___ (plural) (9)
  2. 2. Having identical alleles at corresponding chromosomal loci (10)
  3. 3. The process whereby DNA makes a copy of itself before cell division (11)
  4. 4. Plastid containing ___ and other pigments (11)
  5. 7. The cardinal number that is the sum of three and one (6)
  6. 10. An organism with cells characteristic of all life forms except primitive microorganisms such (9)
  7. 14. Diffusion of molecules through a semipermeable membrane from a place of higher concentration to (7)