Biology 5

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 3. Tool for weighing things; also a set of musical notes (plural) (6)
  2. 5. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated (5)
  3. 7. The longest part of the alimentary canal (14)
  4. 8. The region of the body of a vertebrate between the thorax and the pelvis (7)
  5. 9. The woody part of plants: the supporting and water-conducting tissue (5)
  6. 10. Toxin secreted by animals (5)
  7. 12. A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell (7)
  8. 13. The part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock (4)
  9. 14. The male reproductive cell (5)

Down

  1. 1. A tiny cavity filled with fluid in the cytoplasm of a cell (plural) (8)
  2. 2. A chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium and pumps it to the arteries (9)
  3. 4. Liquid excretory product (5)
  4. 6. Part of an organism consisting of an aggregate of cells having a similar structure and function (6)
  5. 7. Parasitic spore-forming protozoan (9)
  6. 11. A blood vessel that carries blood from the capillaries toward the heart (plural) (5)
  7. 13. A slender or elongated structure that supports a plant or fungus or a plant part or plant organ (4)