Protein Puzzle

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Write the missing letters on the lines to finish each word.

1.
a n
Small bushy deciduous tree native to Asia and North Africa having pretty pink blossoms and highly (plural)
2.
b h
3.
b
Cattle that are reared for their meat
4.
b b e
5.
c e
Dairy food made from milk
6.
c n
Farm bird that lays eggs
7.
c
Burrowing marine mollusk living on sand or mud (plural)
8.
l s
Any of several edible marine crustaceans of the families Homaridae and Nephropsidae and Palinuridae
9.
l
To take the midday meal
10.
c e
A small house with a single story
11.
n
The ___ of the United States of America
12.
p n
Widely cultivated American plant cultivated in tropical and warm regions
13.
e
Oval foods laid by hens
14.
s i
Small slender-bodied chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers
15.
p
Seed of a pea plant used for food (plural)
16.
g a
A relatively small granular particle of a substance (plural)
17.
s m
18.
p
Meat from a domestic hog or pig
19.
k y
Either of two bean-shaped excretory organs that filter wastes from the blood and excrete them
20.
s b
Erect bushy hairy annual herb having trifoliate leaves and purple to pink flowers (plural)
21.
s a
Any of various large food and game fishes of northern waters
22.
l i
Round flat seed of the ___ plant used for food (plural)
23.
s m
24.
s e
Highly seasoned minced meat stuffed in casings