DNA STRUCTURE

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Across
  1. 2. Each nucleotide is made up of a sugar, a phosphate backbone and a _______________.
  2. 5. DNA monomers.
  3. 7. DNA structurally forms a double ___________.
  4. 9. The units inside of the cell where genes can be found, each person has 46 of them.
  5. 11. The "A" nucleotide contains the base ________________.
  6. 12. Information molecule
Down
  1. 1. Type of sugar found in DNA.
  2. 3. The DNA alphabet has ________ "letters".
  3. 4. large molecules that are built up by repeatedly linking together smaller molecules, called monomers.
  4. 6. DNA stores instructions for making other large molecules, called_______.
  5. 8. Nucleotides in DNA are joined together by ______________ bonds.
  6. 9. a segment (or piece) of double stranded DNA that is three nucleotides long.
  7. 10. Short stretches of DNA that contain the instructions for making proteins (or other molecules!)