Across
- 2. The creation or combination of something
- 7. DNA --> RNA --> Proteins
- 9. Dynamic fit between enzyme and substrate that allows for ideal binding
- 10. Cell organelle where DNA is located; transcription takes place
- 12. Enzyme's specific region to which a substrate binds
- 14. Sugar found in DNA
- 15. Monomer of proteins
- 16. A similarly shaped molecule completes with the substrate by binding to an enzyme's active site
- 17. Shape of DNA
- 18. Molecule an enzyme acts upon
- 20. Speeds up a chemical reaction without being used up
- 22. Carries genetic information from the nucleus to the ribosomes
- 24. Sugar found in RNA
Down
- 1. Cell organelle that is the site of translation
- 3. Process that changes an enzyme's shape, leaving it ineffective
- 4. Released after a chemical reaction with an enzyme
- 5. Composed of a sugar, phosphate and nitrogenous base
- 6. Guanine pairs with this nitrogenous base
- 8. Energy needed for reactions to begin
- 11. Adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, uracil
- 13. In RNA will bind with adenine
- 19. Copying of a DNA sequence to form a complementary strand of mRNA
- 21. Process in which mRNA is decoded and a protein produced
- 22. Their experiment created organic molecules from inorganic substances
- 23. Type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions