Knowledge Activity Biology

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Across
  1. 2. Promotes bone growth; increases calcium and phosphorus absortion
  2. 3. Important for amino acids metabolism
  3. 4. Maintains cartilage and bone; antioxidant; improves iron absortion; important for healty gums and wound healing
  4. 6. Large muscular sace that continues the mechanical and chemical digestion of food.
  5. 7. Coenzyme in synthesis of fat; glycogen formation; amino acids metabolism
  6. 8. Continues the breakdown of starch
  7. 10. Involved in nucleic acid metabolism; prevents neural-tube defects
  8. 11. Breakes down remaining disaccharides into monosaccharides
  9. 13. Breakes down dipeptides into amino acids
  10. 15. Controls growth, development, and metabolism; maintains homeostasis
  11. 16. Antioxidant; prevents cellular damage
  12. 18. Contractions of smooth muscles that provide the force that moves food through the esophagus toward the stomach
  13. 20. Important in energy metabolism
  14. 21. Metabolism of carbohydrates
  15. 22. Fingerlike projection in the small intestine that aids in the absortion of nutrient molecules
  16. 23. Part of phospholipids and neurotransmitters
  17. 24. Mixture of enzymes and partially-gigested food
Down
  1. 1. Eliminates waste products from the body
  2. 5. Growth;energy metabolism
  3. 8. Needed for energy metabolism
  4. 9. Involved in nucleic acid metabolism; maturation of red blood cells
  5. 12. Breakes down starches into disaccharides
  6. 14. Enzyme that breakes down proteins into smaller polypeptide fragments
  7. 17. Breaks down fat
  8. 19. Important for growth of skin cells; important for night vision