CENTRAL DOGMA CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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2. Continous string of nucleotides 1. Binds to the tRNA holding the growing

containing a region that codes for a polypeptide chain of amino acid
RNA molecules 3. Sequence of the three DNA or RNA
4. Organic compounds that combine to nucleotides
form proteins 5. Instruction to make proteins
7. segement of nucleic acid molecule that 6. Uracil, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine,
capable in increasing and decreasing the Thymine
expression of the specific gene
8. Removing of non-coding introns
10. Copying double - stranded DNA
molecules 9. Carries the genetic information copied
from DNA
12. start codon
11. Gene expression that occurs in the
13. Read message of nucleic acids or cytoplasm
nucleotides and translate it into proteins
14. Sequence of three nucleotides forming a
15. Non - coding region of mRNA unit of genetic code in tRNA molecule
16. Produce polypeptide quickly and
accurately
17. Synthesized continously
18. gene expression that occurs in the
nucleus
19. mRNA regions that code for a proteins
20. RNA polymerase slides along the
template DNA strand