Across
- 3. nucleic acid that consists of a long chain of nucleotides
- 5. receives oxygen poor blood
- 12. a hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood around the body
- 13. a hollow ball of cells
- 15. is made continuously from one primer (2 words)
- 18. eat other animals
- 19. have three chamber heart: two atria, one ventricle
- 21. many aquatic invertebrates and most aquatic chordates exchange gases through
- 22. heart or heart like organs forces blood through
- 23. insertion and deletion are also know as (2 words)
- 25. untwists the double helix and exposes complementary strands
- 27. digest food inside specialized cells that pass nutrients to other cells by diffusion (2 words)
- 31. have a four chamber heart that are actually two separate pumps working next to one another
- 32. making RNA from a sequence of DNA bases
- 34. these animals exhibit four characteristics during at least one stage of life
- 35. after proteins are built they transfer each amino acid to the ribosome
- 38. the decoding of mRNA into protein
- 39. occurs in the nucleus of eukaryotes & cytoplasm of prokaryotes (2 words)
- 42. reverses direction of parts of a chromosome
- 43. RNA contains A, C, G, U, which are letters of a language called (2 words)
- 44. genes carry instructions from DNA for assembling amino acids into protein
- 45. one base is changed to a different base
- 46. outermost layer, produces organs, nerves, and the outer layer of skin
Down
- 1. proteins are built on ribosomes
- 2. the process of change overtime
- 4. natural selection occurs through this (4 words)
- 6. pre-mRNA molecules have small pieces that are cut out and discarded
- 7. in RNA the sugar is this instead of deoxyribose
- 8. structures that concentrate waste and add them to digest wastes (2 words)
- 9. eat plants or parts of plants
- 10. heritable changes in genetic information
- 11. is assembled in segments created from many primers (2 words)
- 14. only works in one direction (2 words)
- 16. digest food in a tube which had two openings (2 words)
- 17. include skin, mantle cavities, book lungs, and tracheal tubes (2 words)
- 20. one specific amino acid
- 24. organs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide between blood and air
- 26. land vertebrates use these to get rid of ammonia
- 28. begins or continues in a stomach that secretes digestive enzymes (2 words)
- 29. obtain extra nutrients from the bacteria
- 30. father of evolution
- 33. part of a chromosome breaks off and attaches to another
- 36. land invertebrates produce urine in
- 37. animals remove ammonia waste through the process of
- 40. spongy cavities
- 41. pumps blood out oxygen rich blood
- 45. possible three-base codons in the genetic code (2 words)
