Nutrition

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. A fertilizer that is derived from animal or vegetable matter (7)
  2. 6. Organic compounds containing an ___ group and a carboxylic ___ group (9)
  3. 7. Greasy substance in food and body tissue (3)
  4. 9. An essential structural component of living cells and source of energy for animals (plural) (13)
  5. 10. A chemical reaction in which water reacts with a compound to produce other compounds (10)
  6. 11. The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals (10)
  7. 13. A monosaccharide sugar that has several forms (7)

Down

  1. 1. Nutrient in meat and beans that builds muscle (7)
  2. 3. The process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state (12)
  3. 4. Any of a class of aliphatic monocarboxylic ___ that form part of a lipid molecule and can be (plural) (10)
  4. 5. Any of several complex proteins that are produced by cells and act as catalysts in specific (6)
  5. 8. A substance that initiates or accelerates a chemical reaction without itself being affected (8)
  6. 12. A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants (6)