Across
- 4. Whiskers
- 5. The most primitive living mammals
- 6. General term for a pigment cell
- 9. An abrupt transformation from one anatomically distinct stage (juvenile) to another (adult)
- 12. Bone-forming cells
- 15. The skin layer over the dermis that is derived from ectoderm
- 17. A dermal bone located under and supporting an epidermal scale
- 18. The skin layer that lies beneath the epidermis and is derived from mesoderm
- 19. The dorsal, dome-shaped bony part of a turtle shell
- 21. Cells specialized to secrete a product
- 22. The tissue lining blood and lymph vessels
- 24. Release of the ovum from the ovary
- 26. The hollow ball of cells around the internal blastocoel cavity
- 27. The process by which the skin forms proteins, especially keratin
- 29. Prereproductive individuals
- 31. The blastula stage in mammals
- 32. A diverticulum of the hindgut endoderm
- 34. A type of chromatophores containing red pigments
- 35. The skin covering the body
- 36. An older term for a derivative of the enamel that covers some fish scales
- 37. Eggs with slight amount of yolk
- 38. A network of loosely connected cells
- 39. The increase of cellular diversity
- 40. The act of laying eggs
Down
- 1. Enlarged keratinized plates on the tips of the ungulate digits
- 2. Spaces within the matrix
- 3. An embryonic skin segment
- 7. The middle shaft
- 8. The ventral bony part of a turtle shell
- 10. Release of milk to a suckling
- 11. An older term designating a derivative of dentin that covers some fish scales
- 13. The female gamete
- 14. A joint through which little or no movement is permitted between articulated skeletal elements
- 16. Fibrous protein
- 20. Feather tracks
- 23. Solid mass of cells
- 25. Keratinized straining plates that arise from the integument in the mouth of some species of whales
- 28. A branched, bare bone that grows outward from skull bones on some artiodactyl species
- 30. hardest substance in vertebrate body, consisting almost entirely of calcium salts as apatite crystals
- 33. The differentiation of organs from tissues
