Across
- 2. benefit of swimming for DMD patients
- 4. cause bones to be less dense and prone to break
- 7. type of muscle that helps us walk, run, lift
- 13. number of amino acids in body
- 14. smoking, radiation
- 15. segment of DNA
- 16. decrease in muscle size
- 17. bundle of muscle fibers
- 19. attaches muscle to bone
- 20. attaches myofibril to cell membrane
- 21. one of the two contractile proteins in muscles
Down
- 1. process of building protein in ribosome
- 3. process of reading and carrying DNA
- 5. mutation that is genetically passed on
- 6. mutation caused by a base missing
- 8. type of dystrophy with incomplete dystrophin
- 9. mutation caused by a base being added
- 10. type of muscle that moves bones
- 11. type of muscle found in digestive system
- 12. increase in muscle size
- 18. exercise that builds balance
- 19. structural protein similar to dystrophin