Across
- 5. Bonds these hold the two sides of the ladder together
- 7. adenine and guanine are larger bases called ...
- 9. when each strand of DNA serves as an old strand for the new strand to come
- 10. the instructions to build protein
- 11. the building block units of the DNA molecule
- 12. the monomer of DNA and RNA
- 14. Replication making an exact copy of DNA
- 17. each old strand serves as a template for building the complementary new daughter strand
- 18. Pair two nucleotides attached at their bases
- 19. phosphate backbone
- 21. has its own specific instructions for making proteins
Down
- 1. bond bond between sugar and phosphate
- 2. Genome 3.3 billion pairs long
- 3. thymine and cytosine are smaller bases called ...
- 4. when DNA is duplicated
- 6. a segment of DNA
- 8. Bonds they hold the complementary bases together
- 13. the type of sugar found in DNA
- 15. make the center portion of the DNA molecule
- 16. a complete set of genes
- 20. Helix two strands of DNA that are twisted
