Molecular Biology
Across
- 4. enzyme that adds new nucleotides during replication
- 6. the helix uncoiling step during PCR
- 8. small circle of DNA
- 10. expression strain of E. coli that contains rare codons
- 11. small fragments of phage DNA snipped by Cas nuclease
- 12. thermostable proofreading DNA polymerase
- 13. template strand that is replicated as small fragments with RNA primers
- 15. RNA
- 20. turning mRNA into amino acids
- 22. cloning technique based on assembling overlapping PCR fragments
Down
- 1. researcher who's experiments demonstrated that DNA is the genetic material
- 2. structural shape of DNA
- 3. what DNA polymerases can do to correct mistakes made during replication
- 5. where DNA is exchanged between two molecules of DNA
- 7. type of end produced by restriction enzymes with no overhang
- 9. name for adenine and guanine bases
- 14. process in which an organism copies its DNA
- 16. sugar ring in DNA
- 17. group exposed on the 5' end of DNA
- 18. a pyrimidine base that pairs with adenine in RNA
- 19. developer of chain termination DNA sequencing
- 21. three nucleotide sequence that encodes for an amino acid