Crossword-Solution: SYNERGIC 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Even those whose work is largely muscular, unless it involves most of the muscular system, may do well to exercise the unused muscles--although Nature herself produces to some extent the necessary compensation by what is known as the "law of synergic movement," by which unused muscles profit by the exercise of those which are used.

CHAPTER II THE ORGANIC COMPONENTS OF PLANTS From the standpoint of their ability to synthetize synergic foods (see page 2) from inorganic raw materials, plants may be divided into two types; namely, the _autotrophic_, or self-nourishing, plants, and the _heterotrophic_ plants.

Strictly speaking, only those plants whose every cell contains chlorophyll are entirely self-nourishing; and some parts, or organs, of almost any autotrophic plant are dependent upon the active green cells of other parts of the plant for their synergic food.

First, it may be supposed that this particular type of compounds is elaborated by the plant to satisfy its own physiological needs, or for the purpose of storing it up in the seeds as synergic food for the growth of the embryo, in order to reproduce the species.

These are: (_a_) the framework materials, including gums, pectins, and celluloses; (_b_) synergic foods, including carbohydrates, fats, and proteins; and (_c_) the secretions, including the glucosides, volatile oils, alkaloids, pigments, and enzymes.