Blood Health Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• homeostasis : once zinc has been absorbed, _ can be maintained to some extent by regulating excretion.
• prothrombin : a blood protein required for blood clotting?
• deliver : iron in the body's essential job is to _ oxygen to cells.
• iron : when red blood cells die, the _ is not lost.
• hemosiderin : what is an insoluble iron storage compound that stores iron when the iron amount in the body exceeds the storage amount of ferritin?
• hemoglobin : most of the iron in the body is part of?
• blood clotting : vitamin k is linked to?
• females : what gender is more at risk for iron deficiency anemia?
• liver : iron poisoning in children is the leading cause of _ transplants.
• newborns : vitamin k deficiency is most common in?
• irregular : iron deficiency can cause body temperatures to be _ in a cold environment.
• vegans : children, pregnant women, elderly, and _ are at risk for zinc deficiency.
• hemorrhaging : when the body doesn't have enough vitamin k, the blood doesn't clot and causes?
• hemochromatosis : the most common chronic iron overload is?
• hdl : having too much zinc can lower healthy _ cholesterol levels.
• crohns : what disease damages the colon and kills the bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract, making the body deficient of vitamin k?
• rna : zinc plays a role that helps with the synthesis of proteins, dna and _ ?
• finger : proteins containing zinc fold around the zinc atom to form a loop or a " _ "?
• atp : iron is essential for _ production.
• immune : decreased _ function is one of the main symptoms from moderate zinc deficiency?
• vitamin k : what coenzyme is needed for production of prothrombin?
• gene expression : zinc is important for protein synthesis and _ ?