The Human Body

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