Unit 6: DNA Replication

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Across
  1. 2. Initiation point of DNA replication
  2. 5. Area where double helix is unwound to allow for replication
  3. 8. Orientation of DNA strands
  4. 10. Enzyme that breaks hydrogen bonds between base pairs
  5. 12. Makes DNA in 5' to 3' direction
  6. 13. What's formed when a hydrogen binds to an oxygen
  7. 15. Separate parts of lagging strand
Down
  1. 1. Synthesizes RNA to start replicating DNA
  2. 3. Synthesized continuously in 5' to 3' direction
  3. 4. Part of original DNA that serves as guide for new strand
  4. 6. Building block of nucleic acids
  5. 7. Describes how one strand of DNA comes from original DNA strand
  6. 9. Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine
  7. 11. Makes the DNA strands continuous
  8. 14. Safeguards at the end of DNA strands