Nucleic Acid Crossword Puzzle

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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