Across
- 1. Flap that prevents food from entering the trachea
- 3. Source of immediate energy, includes starch, glucose and cellulose
- 5. Inorganic compound needed in trace amounts for cellular processes
- 6. Organic compound needed for cellular processes
- 9. Site of most nutrient absorption in humans
- 10. Name for any molecule consisting of repeating monomer subunits
- 11. Biological term for fat
- 12. Type of digestion performed by teeth
- 14. Occurs when an enzyme is exposed to sub-optimal pH or too high temperature
- 15. This kind of heterotroph will have the shortest digestive tract
Down
- 1. Term used to describe nutrients we must acquire from diet
- 2. Type of enzyme that acts upon proteins
- 3. Type of digestion performed by enzymes and acid
- 4. Monomers that polymerise into proteins
- 7. Monomer of starch
- 8. Tube in humans down which food travels to the stomach
- 13. This kind of heterotroph will have a longer digestive tract to allow for digestion of complex carbohydrates