10-Minute News Challenge
Science : Crossword
FirstNews
Issue 447
9th - 15th January 2014
Read the Science report below from this week’s First News then have a go at the crossword. All the answers to the
crossword are words in the article. Underline these words as you go along.
Whaley old
A large group of 30 scientists worked together to
discover the secrets of the bowhead whale’s DNA.
This is something that is found in the cells of all
living animals, but every species is different. DNA
acts like a blueprint for the body, controlling how it
grows and how it works.
Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years
and are thought to be the longest-lived mammals on
Earth. These huge creatures can weigh around
100 tonnes and have many more cells than the human
body, but are very resistant to cancer and other
diseases that older humans can develop, such as heart
problems.
Although the report in Cell Press doesn’t offer any
solutions to cancer, it does give other scientists a lot
of information to start working on. The researchers
have posted all of their results on the web so that
other experts can use it in their studies.
Kate Stafford/Cell Reports 2015
a study of bowhead whales may give scientists clues that will help them to fight cancer and
other diseases of ageing.
Bowhead whales are thought to
live longer than any other mammal
Across
2) Work, research, observations (plural noun, 7)
4) Put, added, displayed (past tense verb, 6)
6) Strong, not harmed by (adjective, 9)
7) This is a warm-blooded vertebrate animal that usually has fur or hair. It
gives birth to live young and feeds them with milk. (noun, 6)
9) Answers for a disease (plural noun, 9)
Down
1) A plan of how something is expected to work (noun, 9)
2) People who study science or have a lot of knowledge
about it (plural noun, 10)
3) Some scientists give this name to groups
of living things that are able to breed and
produce offspring who can also breed, e.g.
humans. Other scientists group animals etc.
according to their genes – their characteristics from
their parents. (plural noun, 7)
5) All living organisms contain these. Some are made up of a single one, e.g.
bacteria, while others are made up of trillions, e.g. humans. We have different ones of these
things to do different things. Those in our brain help us think while nerve ones help take messages
around the body. (plural noun, 5)
8) This is the abbreviation for the molecule deoxyribonucleic acid. It carries our genetic information – what makes us
look the way we do etc. (noun, 3)
Learning through news
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10-Minute News Challenge
Science : Crossword
FirstNews
Issue 447
9th - 15th January 2014
Read the Science report below from this week’s First News then have a go at the crossword. All the answers to the
crossword are underlined in the article.
Whaley old
A large group of 30 scientists worked together to
discover the secrets of the bowhead whale’s DNA.
This is something that is found in the cells of all
living animals, but every species is different. DNA
acts like a blueprint for the body, controlling how it
grows and how it works.
Bowhead whales can live for more than 200 years
and are thought to be the longest-lived mammals on
Earth. These huge creatures can weigh around
100 tonnes and have many more cells than the human
body, but are very resistant to cancer and other
diseases that older humans can develop, such as heart
problems.
Although the report in Cell Press doesn’t offer any
solutions to cancer, it does give other scientists a lot
of information to start working on. The researchers
have posted all of their results on the web so that
other experts can use it in their studies.
Kate Stafford/Cell Reports 2015
a study of bowhead whales may give scientists clues that will help them to fight cancer and
other diseases of ageing.
Bowhead whales are thought to
live longer than any other mammal
Across
2) Work, research, observations (plural noun, 7)
4) Put, added, displayed (past tense verb, 6)
6) Strong, not harmed by (adjective, 9)
7) This is a warm-blooded vertebrate animal that usually has fur or hair. It
gives birth to live young and feeds them with milk. (noun, 6)
9) Answers for a disease (plural noun, 9)
Down
1) A plan of how something is expected to work (noun, 9)
2) People who study science or have a lot of knowledge
about it (plural noun, 10)
3) Some scientists give this name to groups
of living things that are able to breed and
produce offspring who can also breed, e.g.
humans. Other scientists group animals etc.
according to their genes – their characteristics from
their parents. (plural noun, 7)
5) All living organisms contain these. Some are made up of a single one, e.g.
bacteria, while others are made up of trillions, e.g. humans. We have different ones of these
things to do different things. Those in our brain help us think while nerve ones help take messages
around the body. (plural noun, 5)
8) This is the abbreviation for the molecule deoxyribonucleic acid. It carries our genetic information – what makes us
look the way we do etc. (noun, 3)
Learning through news
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