The Human Body
Across
- 3. Application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
- 6. Process of breaking down food to release energy.
- 9. Process of oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer in the lungs.
- 10. Organ in females that produces eggs.
- 14. Framework of bones supporting the body.
- 17. Smallest blood vessel where exchange of substances occurs.
- 19. Protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body.
- 23. Mature female reproductive cell.
- 24. Union of sperm and egg to form a zygote.
- 26. Process of eliminating waste products from the body.
- 27. Movement of water through a semipermeable membrane.
- 28. Developing human from roughly eight weeks after conception to birth.
- 29. Process of breaking down food into nutrients.
- 31. Monthly cycle of changes in the female reproductive system.
- 32. Group of similar cells performing a specific function.
- 34. Undifferentiated cell capable of becoming specialised.
- 35. Muscle attached to bones enabling movement.
- 36. Involuntary muscle found in walls of organs.
- 37. The use of living systems and organisms to develop products.
Down
- 1. Reproduction involving the fusion of gametes.
- 2. Fertilised egg cell.
- 4. Pathway of organs food passes through during digestion.
- 5. Male reproductive organs producing sperm.
- 7. Rigid organ that forms part of the vertebrate skeleton.
- 8. Blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
- 11. Blood vessel carrying blood to the heart.
- 12. Cell division producing gametes with half the number of chromosomes.
- 13. Mature haploid male or female reproductive cell.
- 15. Chemical processes that occur within a living organism to maintain life.
- 16. Tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs.
- 17. Structure of nucleic acids and proteins carrying genetic information.
- 18. Disease in which the body's ability to produce or respond to insulin is impaired.
- 20. Basic unit of life.
- 21. Fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins.
- 22. Flexible connective tissue found in joints.
- 25. Fertilisation occurring outside the body, in a lab.
- 30. Type of cell division resulting in two identical daughter cells.
- 33. Functional unit of the kidney.