Mr. McCarron's Life Science Puzzle

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (7)
  2. 3. A body of students who are taught together (5)
  3. 7. Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes (7)
  4. 11. The first stage of meiosis (8)
  5. 12. How plants make food from sunlight (14)
  6. 13. A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell (7)
  7. 15. Tiniest unit of living things (4)

Down

  1. 2. Center of an atom or a cell (7)
  2. 4. Parents, children and relatives who belong together (6)
  3. 5. Organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis (11)
  4. 6. The metabolic processes whereby certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules (11)
  5. 8. The second stage of meiosis (9)
  6. 9. Coins collectively (plural) (7)
  7. 10. The stage of meiosis or mitosis when chromosomes move toward opposite ends of the nuclear spindle (8)
  8. 12. The major taxonomic group of animals and plants (6)
  9. 14. A command given by a superior that must be obeyed (5)