DNA STRUCTURE
Across
- 2. Each nucleotide is made up of a sugar, a phosphate backbone and a _______________.
- 5. DNA monomers.
- 7. DNA structurally forms a double ___________.
- 9. The units inside of the cell where genes can be found, each person has 46 of them.
- 11. The "A" nucleotide contains the base ________________.
- 12. Information molecule
Down
- 1. Type of sugar found in DNA.
- 3. The DNA alphabet has ________ "letters".
- 4. large molecules that are built up by repeatedly linking together smaller molecules, called monomers.
- 6. DNA stores instructions for making other large molecules, called_______.
- 8. Nucleotides in DNA are joined together by ______________ bonds.
- 9. a segment (or piece) of double stranded DNA that is three nucleotides long.
- 10. Short stretches of DNA that contain the instructions for making proteins (or other molecules!)