Across
- 2. a kidney tubule
- 6. enzymatic release of energy from organic compounds in living cells
- 9. basic unit of all living organisms
- 11. muscles in the walls of arterioles that supply blood to capillaries near the skin surface contract when there is a decrease in the temperature of environment
- 12. organ responsible for creating urine
- 15. the control of core body temperature
Down
- 1. filtration on a molecular scale e.g. the filtration that occurs as blood flows through capillaries, especially in glomeruli in the kidney
- 3. the end of the pathway between the atmosphere and blood stream
- 4. the universal energy currency of cells
- 5. maintaining a relatively constant environment for the cells within the body
- 7. the second stage of urine creation in kidney
- 8. a nitrogenous excretory product produced in the liver from the deamination of amino acids
- 10. a disease in which alveoli are destroyed, giving large air spaces and decreased surface area for gaseous exchange
- 13. nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
- 14. a chemical found in tobacco smoke that can bind with acetylcholine receptors on the postsynaptic membrane of cholinergic synapses