biology unit 5
Across
- 1. 3' to 5' replicated in Okazaki fragments
- 3. five-carbon sugar found in RNA
- 4. purine base that pairs with cytosine
- 5. nucleotide that stores genetic information, creates DNA and RNA
- 7. a random error in gene replication that leads to a change
- 8. where the cell’s chromosomes are found: controls cell
- 10. basic structural unit of DNA
- 13. pyrimidine base, forms with adenine
- 16. a condition in which an organism has extra sets of chromosomes
- 17. a purine base, forms pair with thymine
- 19. a mutation affecting only one or very few nucleotides in a gene sequence
- 20. 5' to 3' replicated in one chunk
Down
- 2. a permanent alteration in the DNA sequence that makes up a gene
- 6. site of protein synthesis in the cell
- 9. a pyriidine base, forms with guanine
- 11. substance inside a chromosome that consists of DNA tightly coiled around proteins
- 12. involves the insertion or deletion of a nucleotide in the DNA sequence
- 14. a five-carbon sugar that is a component of DNA nucleotides
- 15. a pyrimidine base, paired with adenine
- 18. enzyme that unwinds double-stranded DNA by breaking hydrogen bonds