ocat 2025

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Across
  1. 1. Not referring to free water and snacks in the hotel minifridge, this term describes the way in which the nitrogenous bases in DNA pair up.
  2. 3. I'm a-mean gossiper, I tell my gossip to adenlyl cyclase who makes the rumour mill run making your heart pound.
  3. 6. This secondary messenger likes to play around with her more well-known sisters, but the fun always stops when PDE comes around.
  4. 8. wyd rn
  5. 12. This non-academic process awards you with many As.
  6. 14. The congregation of congregations of histones.
  7. 15. Self-sabotager who exchanges positive relationships for toxic ones.
  8. 19. Eat these fish at your own risk—carry Benadryl just to be safe.
  9. 20. Considered a nutrient, this can be made into something useful for your autonomic ganglia—after a ChAT, that is.
  10. 22. We were spliced out from the final 'get-on with the job' action—should we file a grievance?
  11. 23. A rate-limiting enzyme that starts the process of making a feel-saintly molecule.
Down
  1. 2. One unit of Eric.
  2. 4. A return to sender sort of message, sometimes asking them to restrain themselves from sending more.
  3. 5. A formula to gauge a family's potential to maintain balance, if Chlorine were the forgotten middle child of the Goldman family…
  4. 7. A process whereby a simple aryl group is added to diverse spots on a histamine molecule—consequences are different though—it could become selectively active or neutralized.
  5. 9. Two-faced corpus responsible for internal Fed-Ex duties.
  6. 10. Active in live streams and axons, both producing messages.
  7. 11. I'm found in what leads to life and leads to death, you want me around until I'm malignant.
  8. 13. somesomesomesomesome
  9. 16. You might know me as a longer name, but its all good G, Can Probs Refer to me as 7 transmembrane.
  10. 17. Pointy-prism-adjacent and sharp enough to CUT.
  11. 18. Not a great quality in a member of a selection committee, but welcomed by big pharma in the agonists they seek.
  12. 20. An all-purpose de-fizzer removes this group from an innocuous cytoplasmic amino-acid to make it pruritogenic (itch-inducing).
  13. 21. Necessary precursor for the OG catecholamine.
  14. 24. In the world of spies, this target of Soviet newcomer agents could make your ganglia stay at full speed.