Across
- 3. a unit of heredity passed from parent to offspring
- 5. Directs all incoming and outgoing sensory and motor information
- 7. Deals with critical elements like sleep, respiration, and swallowing
- 9. Oversees the formation of new memories, learning, and emotions
- 12. In charge of all of the responses of the endocrine system
- 14. An organism's genetic makeup
- 15. Associated with higher-level thinking, motor skills, reasoning, and expressive language
- 16. Controls our wakefulness and alertness
- 19. An organism's physical characteristics
- 20. Regulates emotions, controls voluntary movements, and assists with balance
- 22. Interprets visual stimuli and functions
- 24. Gives us the ability to form emotions and memory
Down
- 1. Conserves energy and increases intestinal and gland activity
- 2. Receive, carry, and transmit information
- 4. Associated with the voluntary control of body movements
- 6. Involved in auditory processing, interpreting language, and soundS
- 8. Accelerates heart rate, constricts blood pressure, and raises blood pressure
- 10. Processes sensory information and known for mathematical reasoning
- 11. Controls bodily functions not consciously directed.
- 12. Contains all nerves that go into the brain and spinal cord
- 13. Includes the brain and spinal cord
- 17. Contains glands that produce and secrete hormones
- 18. Regulates body temperature and analyzes the blood flow in your body
- 21. Controls breathing, blood pressure, and heart rate
- 23. A bundle of neurons