Genetics Crossword
Across
- 2. Selectively modify DNA
- 5. Is the process through which information encoded in messenger RNA directs the addition of amino acids during protein synthesis
- 8. Is the process of making an RNA copy of a gene’s DNA sequence
- 11. Occurs in a genome when a single base pair is added, deleted or changed
- 15. The entire DNA instructions found in a cell
- 16. The Structure of DNA
- 18. Basic building block of RNA and DNA
- 19. Instructions that tell the cell on how to make a specific protein
- 20. Some contribute to an individual’s observable traits, called the phenotype
Down
- 1. Insertion or deletion of nucleotides
- 3. The DNA that you inherit from your parents
- 4. Change in the DNA sequence in an organism
- 6. DNA change that results in different amino acids being encoded at a particular position in the resulting protein
- 7. DNA that is past down
- 9. The four nucleotide bases in DNA
- 10. Complex molecules that play important roles in the body
- 12. What builds a protein
- 13. DNA or RNA sequence of three nucleotides
- 14. Makes up observable traits
- 17. Combination of all genes