Cells

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 6. Any of a group of green pigments found in photosynthetic organisms (11)
  2. 7. All the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age (plural) (11)
  3. 11. Center of an atom or a cell (7)
  4. 12. Consisting of many cells (13)
  5. 13. The state of lacking unity (10)
  6. 14. An organic process that takes place in the body (plural) (10)
  7. 15. A change of position that does not entail a change of location (8)
  8. 16. The protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus (9)

Down

  1. 1. The process of an individual organism growing organically (6)
  2. 2. Plastid containing ___ and other pigments (plural) (12)
  3. 3. Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division (5)
  4. 4. A pliable sheet of tissue that covers or lines or connects the organs or cells of animals or plants (8)
  5. 5. Having or consisting of a single cell (11)
  6. 8. The real physical matter of which a person or thing consists (9)
  7. 9. Any member of the genus ___ (10)
  8. 10. The act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another (11)