Across
- 5. liquid matrix of the blood
- 7. proteins that interact in a cascade that ends with the destruction of bacterial cells
- 9. accessory organ that stores bile until chyme triggers its release into the small intestine
- 11. Y shaped protein composed of two heavy and two light polypeptide chains
- 12. entrance of food into the digestive track
- 13. a rise in the body's temperature
- 15. substances required for metabolism, growth, maintenance of life
- 16. disease wherein the bone marrow overproduces white blood cells
- 17. another term for white blood cells
- 21. immediate reaction to an injury or any pathogen that breaches the body's barrier
- 23. animals that only eat meat
- 25. target in an adaptive immune response
- 26. chemical breakdown of food
- 28. chamber where blood enters
- 29. pump that keeps the blood moving through vessels
Down
- 1. fluid of the Circulatory System
- 2. substance that stimulates active immunity against a pathogen without actually causing illness
- 3. chamber where blood exits
- 4. condition in which the immune system lacks one or more essential components
- 6. a damaging immune response by the body to a substance, especially pollen, fur, a particular food, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive
- 8. animals that only eat plants
- 10. _______ immunity; where a person receives antibodies from somewhere else
- 14. pigment of the red blood cells
- 18. tube that connects the bladder with the outside of the body
- 19. small, colorless cell fragments that participate in blood clotting
- 20. chemical that suspends fats in water to speed digestion by lipase
- 22. BMI greater than 30
- 24. animals that eat both plants and meat
- 25. _______ immunity; where a person makes his own antibodies
- 27. carries oxygenated blood away from the heart