Cells and Reproduction

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. The male reproductive cell (5)
  2. 5. Living things like trees and flowers that grow in soil (6)
  3. 6. An army unit large enough to sustain combat (8)
  4. 9. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective (3)
  5. 10. The condition of a file that is broken up and stored in many different locations on a magnetic disk (13)
  6. 12. Serious disease where cells grow out of control (6)
  7. 14. Living things like dogs and birds (7)
  8. 15. The process of an individual organism growing organically (6)
  9. 16. A general term for the research activity that creates a copy of some biological entity (7)

Down

  1. 1. The diploid cell resulting from the union of a haploid spermatozoon and ovum (6)
  2. 3. The process of generating offspring (12)
  3. 4. Reproduction of some unicellular organisms by growth and specialization followed by the separation (7)
  4. 7. Any of the ___ of a plant or animal except the reproductive ___ (11)
  5. 8. Growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs (12)
  6. 11. An organism that has characteristics resulting from chromosomal alteration (plural) (9)
  7. 13. Tiniest unit of living things (4)