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• Answer the General Knowledge questions on science, then find the words in the grid.
• Words appear horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backwards. Some words may overlap.
Quiz Question
1. The basic structural, functional, and biological unit of all known living organisms.
2. A cell with two of each chromosome, or homologous pairs, in its nucleus.
3. Of a plant disease, that occurs with moderate severity, each year, among the plants of a district, but not destroying them.
4. The reproductive haploid cell of an organism, either male or female, that unites during fertilization.
5. One of the chemically complex units of hereditary information, found on the chromosome.
6. One of the naturally occurring inert (or noble) gases.
7. This portal vein carries blood to the liver, before returning the blood to the heart.
8. The third largest moon of Saturn, named after a Titan son of Uranus and Gaia, and is also an ancient ocean.
9. The dwarf planet Pluto is colder, and therefore is ……, than all the planets in our solar system.
10. The male of this species, while guarding his harem, will parade with head erect, ears back, and tail clamped down.
11. Some of these gases making up group 8 of the periodic table are: argon, krypton, and zenon.
12. A chemical compound that has the same molecules as another compound, but the atoms are arranged differently.
13. A colourless, watery, fluid that surrounds the cells of vertebrates, and is moved by the movement of muscles.
14. It is said to do this when a river or stream flows from side to side, creating erosion on the outerbanks, where flow is fastest, and deposits on the inner banks, where flow is checked.
15. A ciliated larval stage in which parasitic fluke passes from the egg to its first host, typically a snail.
16. To change smoothly from one stage to another, by small gradual steps, such as a chrysalis to a butterfly.
17. A protoplasm resembling an amoeba, feeding in much the same way, without cell walls, and only a cell membrane. When a plasmodium runs out of food, or environmental conditions become harsh, fruiting bodies form, producing dormant, resistive spores, which later germinate to form these uninucleate or flagellated swarm cells.
18. The reduction of blood volume, in the body, or any organ or tissue.
19. Each of the optical cone-shaped units corresponding to a small, simple eye, that make up the compound eye of an arthropod.
20. A cell that undergoes meiosis to form the female reproductive cell of an organism.
21. This is a table of all the elements, arranged by their atomic numbers.
22. A term used to describe the change in shape of the bright surface of the moon, due to the relative position of the Sun, Moon, and Earth.
23. A type of soft, edible, fruit.
24. Protozoa that move and capture food by forming pseudopodia, comprising the amoebas and related organisms.
25. The blackish ink, secreted by a cuttlefish, as a defensive screen.
26. Relating to a septum or septa. These defects are sometimes call a ‘hole’ in the heart.
27. Eukaryotic organisms that can live freely as single cells, but can aggregate together to form multicellular, reproductive structures.
28. The chrystalline material, forming the internal skeleton, of certain sponges.
29. The brightest star, an orange giant, in a small constellation, in the southern hemisphere.
30. The self destruction of cells, or tissues, by their own lysosomal digestive enzymes, especially after death, or in a pathological process.
31. Archaean, or having no trace of life, or organic remains.
32. A substance in a chemical reaction that breaks up in water to produce hydroxide ions.
33. A marine species of worm synonymous with Lumbriconais.
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