Variation

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Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The male reproductive cell (5)
  2. 5. Creation by the physical union of male and female gametes (13)
  3. 8. A prominent attribute or aspect of something (plural) (8)
  4. 10. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective (3)
  5. 11. The protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus (9)

Down

  1. 1. An activity that varies from a norm or standard (9)
  2. 3. Tiniest unit of living things (4)
  3. 4. The natural world around us (11)
  4. 6. To obtain from someone after their death (9)
  5. 7. A segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain (plural) (5)
  6. 9. Center of an atom or a cell (7)