Genetics Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a random change in the nucleotide sequence of DNA
  2. 6. Most influential or important
  3. 8. Basic building blocks of DNA and mRNA
  4. 9. Nucleotide changes and causes an amino acid to change
  5. 11. Appearance of an organism
  6. 14. individual has two copies of the Allele
  7. 15. Three nucleotide sequence that codes for an amino acid
  8. 16. Large, complex molecules that play many critical roles in the body
  9. 18. Ribosomes "read" the mRNA and use information to build proteins
Down
  1. 1. DNA is copied to create an identical strand of DNA
  2. 3. Basic building blocks of protein
  3. 4. Nucleotide change creates/destroys a start or stop codon
  4. 5. Made up of DNA
  5. 7. genetic make up of an organism or group of organisms
  6. 10. Nucleotide changes but amino acid doesn't
  7. 12. Affects a single nucleotide, usually by substituting one nucleotide for another
  8. 13. inserts or deletes one or more nucleotide
  9. 14. translates mRNA sequences into protein
  10. 17. Carrier of genetic information