DNA and Genetic Expression Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The building blocks of proteins
  2. 5. Tightly coiled DNA stored in the nucleus
  3. 6. RNA that carries and links amino acids
  4. 7. When codons are read to link amino acids
  5. 10. The fancy name for a protein
  6. 12. A segment of DNA that does not code for proteins
  7. 13. RNA that makes up ribosomes
  8. 15. The copying of DNA before the cell divides
  9. 16. A group of three nitrogen bases that pairs with a codon
  10. 17. A macromolecule made of nucleotides
  11. 18. The set of all genetic information in a cell
  12. 20. RNA copied from DNA that tells ribosomes how to make proteins
  13. 21. A macromolecule made of amino acids
Down
  1. 1. A distinguishing quality or characteristic
  2. 3. Adenine, Thymine, Guanine, and Cytosine
  3. 4. The unit of heredity
  4. 8. A group of three nitrogenous bases
  5. 9. Instructions contained in a gene
  6. 11. A part of DNA that codes for a protein
  7. 13. The organelle that makes proteins
  8. 14. The theory that genetic information flows from DNA to RNA, to proteins
  9. 19. When DNA is copied to RNA