Biology
Across
- 2. One of the larger air tubes in the lungs. Each lung has a main bronchus that branches into smaller and smaller airways.
- 3. The transparent dome at the front of the eyeball that is the eye's main focusing lens.
- 4. A thin-walled blood vessel that returns blood at low pressure from body organs and tissues to the heart.
- 6. The sum of all the physical and chemical processes that take place in the body.
- 8. The dome-shaped muscular sheet that separates the chest from the abdomen.
- 11. A watery fluid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands to aid chewing, tasting and digestion.
- 12. Fatty or oily substance, insoluble in water, with varied roles in the body.
- 13. The outer layer of the skin; its box-shaped cells become flatter and scalier towards the surface.
- 14. Control centre of a cell, containing the genetic material DNA.
- 17. Watery or jelly-like fluid that fills the bulk of a cell; it contains many organelles.
- 18. Body structure made of similar cells that perform one main function
- 19. A region of the brain located behind the brainstem. It is concerned with balance, posture, and the control of fine movement.
Down
- 1. An elastic, muscular-walled tube that transports blood away from the heart to other body parts.
- 2. A type of microorganism with one cell. Only a few of the many species of them cause disease.
- 5. The coiled structure in the inner ear that converts sound vibrations into nerve impulses for the transmission to the brain.
- 7. A morphine-like substance produced naturally by the body in times of pain and stress, and also activated during exercise.
- 9. A soluble protein that attaches to body incaders, such as bacteria, and helps to destroy them.
- 10. The membrane separating the outer eat from the middle ear that vibrates in response to sound.
- 15. A threadlike structure, present in all nucleated body cells, that carries the genetic code for the formation of the body. A normal body has 23 pairs of it.
- 16. A protein that accelerates chemical reactions within cells.