| ORGANISM | Individual animal or plant |
| PIGMENTS | Powders mixed with oil or water to create paints; dyes or inks generally; or, carotenoids, chlorophylls or other colours in animal or plant cells (8) |
| PARASITE | An animal or plant that lives in or on another (8) |
| FILAMENT | A slender threadlike object or fibre, especially one found in animal or plant structures (8) |
| BINOMIAL | A two-part name for an animal or plant (8) |
| ANATOMIC | Relating to the physical structure of an animal or plant by dissection (8) |
| PUREBRED | (Of an animal or plant) of unmixed descent |
| ENVIRONMENT | The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates |
| BIOMASS | Form of energy produced from organisms that once lived. It's also the term for the weight or total quantity of living organisms of one animal or plant species or of all the species in a community. (7) |
| SELF | An archery bow made from a single piece of wood; one's ego or being; or, an animal or plant of uniform colour, as opposed to variegated (4) |
| ALBINO | Animal or plant lacking complete or partial pigmentation (6) |
| SAC | A structure resembling a bag or pouch in an animal or plant (3) |
| AGA | Period of time that a person, animal or plant has or is expected to live (3) |
| AGE | Period of time a person , animal or plant has lived or is expected to live (3) |
| HABITAT | The environment in which an animal or plant normally lives or grows (7) |
| HOST | Animal or plant on or in which a parasite lives (4) |
| AQUATIC | Description of an animal or plant that lives in or near water (7) |
| FOSSIL | The preserved remains or imprint of a prehistoric animal or plant (6) |
| EMBRYO | Animal or plant in its earliest stages (6) |
| CELL | Animal or plant building unit (4) |