Star Prep Review
Across
- 2. paired with adenine
- 9. form the basic structural unit of nucleic acids such as DNA
- 11. carrier of genetic information
- 13. the process of copying a segment of DNA into RNA
- 14. the stage of meiotic or mitotic cell division in which the chromosomes move away from one another to opposite poles of the spindle
- 15. paired with thymine
Down
- 1. the cytoplasmic division of a cell
- 3. nitrogenous compounds that form an important part of the nucleotides
- 4. the process in which ribosomes synthesize proteins
- 5. having two identical alleles of a particular gene or genes
- 6. the first stage of cell division
- 7. a type of cell division that results in two daughter cells
- 8. the second stage of cell division
- 10. the resting phase between successive mitotic divisions of a cell, or between the first and second divisions of meiosis
- 12. the changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form