Organs & Organ Systems
Across
- 2. Supports, binds together, and protects other tissues and organs
- 4. differentiation The process by which cells become specialized in structure and function
- 5. produce hormones
- 7. Muscle fibers that are bundles of single, thin muscle cells
- 9. A group of similar cells that work together to perform a specialized function, usually as part of an organ
- 11. protects the axon and helps speed transmission of nerve impulses
- 13. the contractile unit of the muscle cell
Down
- 1. Provides protective lining; allows for transport, secretion, and absorption
- 3. short, branch-like extensions that extend from the cell body, they receive electrochemical messages from other cells
- 6. a long extension of the cell that carries electrochemical signals away from the cell body and passes them to other cells
- 7. What thick filaments are made up of
- 8. made up of hair, skin, nails, ect.
- 10. What thin filaments are made up of
- 12. A group of tissues that carry out a specialized function of the body
- 14. system Two or more organs that work together to perform body functions