Nucleic Acid Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• nucleotides: the building blocks of nucleic acids
• thymine: the nitrogen-containing base that pairs with adenine in dna
• guanine: the nitrogen-containing base that pairs with cytosine in rna
• adenine: the nitrogen-containing base that pairs with uracil in rna
• dna: the type of nucleic acid that is double-stranded and contains thymine
• rna:the type of nucleic acid that is single-stranded and contains uracil
• replication: the process by which dna is copied
• dna polymerase: the enzyme that adds new nucleotides during dna replication
• transcription: the process by which rna is made from a dna template
• rna polymerase: the enzyme that carries out transcription
• ribonucleic acid: acronym for rna
• trna (transfer rna): the molecule that carries amino acids to the ribosome during translation
• ribosome: the site of protein synthesis in the cell
• adenine: the nitrogen-containing ease that pairs with thymine in dnacytosine
• codon: three-letter code for an amino acid in mrna
• triplet: the sequence of three nucleotides that codes for a specific amino acid
• translation: the process by which mrna is used to build a protein
• rna polymerase: the enzyme that adds new nucleotides during rna transcription
• promoter: the sequence of nucleotides that marks the beginning of a gene
• terminator: the sequence of nucleotides that marks the end of a gene
• deoxyribonucleic acid: the acronym for dna
• cytosine: the nitrogen-containing base that pairs with guanine in dna