DNA Crossword

Deoxyribonucleic acid is a molecule that carries the genetic instructions used in the growth, development, functioning and reproduction of all known living organisms and many viruses.
the structure formed by double-stranded molecules of nucleic acids such as DNA.
form the basic structural unit of nucleic acids such as DNA.
a nitrogen containing molecule that has the same chemical properties as a base.
One of the three diazines, it has the nitrogen atoms at positions 1 and 3 in the ring.
heterocyclic aromatic organic compound that consists of a pyrimidine ring fused to an imidazole ring.
Austro-Hungarian biochemist who immigrated to the United States during the Nazi era and was a professor of biochemistry at Columbia University medical school.
create their famous two-strand, or double-helix, model.
DNA from any cell of all organisms should have a 1:1 ratio (base Pair Rule) of pyrimidine and purine bases and, more specifically, that the amount of guanine is equal to cytosine and the amount of adenine is equal to thymine.
a weak bond between two molecules resulting from an electrostatic attraction between a proton in one molecule and an electronegative atom in the other.
replication is a conserved mechanism that restricts DNA replication to only once per cell cycle.
DNA molecules with protein in structures called chromosomes.
unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.
the material of which the chromosomes of organisms other than bacteria (i.e., eukaryotes) are composed.
a threadlike structure of nucleic acids and protein found in the nucleus of most living cells, carrying genetic information in the form of genes.