Animal Hair
Across
- 2. What layer of hair contains the pigment that gives you your hair colour?
- 7. Forensic Scientist studies a hair's pattern, appearance of medulla and what?
- 8. What is the name of the inner layer of a hair?
- 9. What type of scale is short and wide and do not encircle the entire width of the hair?
- 10. Hair is made up of what? Hint: Keratin is an example of this substance.
- 11. What is the name of the middle layer of a hair?
- 12. The colour of hair is found in the cortex so the cuticle has to be what?
- 14. The scales of the cuticle fall in 2 groups: coronal scales and what?
- 15. What type of scale encircle the entire width of the hair?
- 16. The cuticle has a pattern formed by the overlapping of the dead cells that make the hair and we call these structures what?
Down
- 1. What is the name of the outer layer of a hair?
- 3. A hair grows from what in a mammals skin?
- 4. What is the name of the protein that makes hair?
- 5. What type of scale is short and wide and do not encircle the entire width of the hair?
- 6. What is a long thread-like outgrowth from a follicle.
- 13. A hair is divided into how many regions?