Bacteria

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. The bodily process of discharging waste matter (9)
  2. 5. Having or consisting of a single cell (11)
  3. 8. The state of being joined together (11)
  4. 10. A unicellular organism having cells lacking membrane-bound nuclei (plural) (11)
  5. 11. An organelle in the cytoplasm of a living cell (8)
  6. 12. The protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus (9)
  7. 13. Any organism of ___ size (plural) (14)
  8. 15. The process of generating offspring (12)

Down

  1. 1. The process of taking food into the body through the mouth (9)
  2. 2. Tiny single-celled living things, some of which cause illness (8)
  3. 4. Of or relating to organisms that can make complex organic nutritive compounds from simple inorganic (11)
  4. 6. Requiring organic compounds of carbon and nitrogen for nourishment (13)
  5. 7. A lash-like appendage used for locomotion (9)
  6. 9. A thin ___ enclosing the cytoplasm of a ___ (12)
  7. 14. Free-living or colonial organisms with diverse nutritional and reproductive modes (7)