Unit 5: Protein Synthesis

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Across
  1. 3. a chain of amino acids that folds to make a protein
  2. 5. the type of sugar found in DNA
  3. 6. a set of 3 letters found on tRNA
  4. 7. the process of a stem cell transforming into a specific cell with a specific job
  5. 9. a type of cell that has not become specialized
  6. 12. delivers the amino acids to the mRNA at the ribosome
  7. 13. the building block of nucleic acids containing a phosphate, sugar, and base
  8. 14. this enzyme breaks the hydrogen bond between bases in DNA
  9. 16. the process of copying DNA onto a strand of mRNA in the nucleus
  10. 19. a change in DNA
  11. 20. a set of 3 letters found in mRNA
  12. 21. an organism's entire collection of DNA
Down
  1. 1. a small section of DNA that codes for a specific trait
  2. 2. this scientist took the famous "photograph 51" which showed the structure of DNA
  3. 4. the base found only in DNA
  4. 8. the process of creating protein from active genes
  5. 10. the process of turning the message on a strand of mRNA into a strand of amino acids
  6. 11. the type of sugar found in RNA
  7. 15. a nucleic acid containing deoxyribose sugar
  8. 17. a nucleic acid containing ribose sugar
  9. 18. the organelle that holds the DNA