Tissue and Transplant

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. Red liquid pumped around the body by the heart (5)
  2. 6. The act of expanding something in apparent size (13)
  3. 9. The organic process by which food is converted into substances that can be absorbed into the body (9)
  4. 10. Part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function (6)
  5. 11. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (7)
  6. 13. A living organism characterized by voluntary movement (6)
  7. 14. Organ that pumps blood around the body (5)
  8. 15. Any bundle of ___ fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body (5)

Down

  1. 2. A body part made of tissues working together to perform a function. (5)
  2. 3. Living thing that grows in soil and makes its own food (5)
  3. 4. Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them (plural) (7)
  4. 5. Magnifier of the image of small objects (10)
  5. 6. One of the contractile organs of the body (6)
  6. 7. That part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers (5)
  7. 8. Membranous tube with cartilaginous rings that conveys inhaled air from the larynx to the bronchi (8)
  8. 12. Either of two saclike respiratory organs in the chest of vertebrates (4)