Molecular Genetics

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Across
  1. 3. Ribonucleic acid
  2. 6. A double-ringed structure
  3. 9. A mutation that occurs on an organism's gene
  4. 11. Unwinds the double helix by breaking hydrogen bonds
  5. 14. DNA replication in which half one of the two strands is new and the other is the original
  6. 15. Three nucleotide bases that together correspond with a specific amino acid
  7. 16. Deoxyribonucleic acid
Down
  1. 1. The process of creating proteins using DNA and RNA
  2. 2. Macromolecule that stores and transmits genetic information
  3. 4. A monomer of nucleic acids
  4. 5. Process in which the nitrogen bases of a DNA strand are copied into messenger RNA
  5. 7. A single-ringed structure
  6. 8. The process in which the information from the messenger RNA is copied and connected to form amino acids
  7. 10. An organism's complete set of DNA
  8. 12. Three nucleotide bases that correspond with a codon of messenger RNA
  9. 13. This strand can be built continuously since DNA is only synthesized in the 5' to 3' direction