DNA replication vocab

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Across
  1. 5. Two carbon rings joined together
  2. 7. Enzyme adding nucleotides to telomeres, especially in cancer cells
  3. 9. Enzyme synthesizing short RNA sequences called primers
  4. 10. One carbon ring joined together
  5. 11. Kind of virus that infects bacteria
  6. 12. Process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by genes from another strain
  7. 13. Bonds in DNA forming only between adenine-thymine and guanine-cytosine
  8. 16. Process of copying DNA prior to cell division
Down
  1. 1. Principal enzyme involved in DNA replication
  2. 2. Strand of nascent DNA synthesized in the same direction as the replication fork
  3. 3. Repetitive DNA at the end of Eukaryotic chromosome
  4. 4. Enzymes altering the supercoiling of double-stranded DNA
  5. 6. Pentose sugar important in the formation of DNA
  6. 8. DNA strand laid down in the direction opposite that of the opening replication fork
  7. 14. Two biopolymers running parallel but with opposite directionality
  8. 15. Fragment Small sections of DNA formed during discontinuous synthesis of the lagging strand