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Question
Word game: Use the clues to work out the words.
Across
3. Protruding voice box in boys
4. Glands without ducts
7. Endocrine gland attached to brain
8. Secretion of endocrine glands
9. Pancreatic hormone
10. Female hormone
Down
1. Male hormone
2. Secretes thyroxin
3. Another term for teenage
5. Hormone reaches here through blood stream
6. Voice box
7. Term for changes at adolescence
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Solution
Across
3. Adam’s apple
4. Endocrine
7. Pituitary
8. Hormone
9. Insulin
10. estrogen
Down
1. Testosterone
2. Thyroid
3. Adolescence
5. Target site
6. Larynx
7. Puberty
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