DNA Vocab

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 2. Reproduction of some unicellular organisms by growth and specialization followed by the separation (7)
  2. 4. A base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine (8)
  3. 5. A distinguishing feature of your personal nature (plural) (6)
  4. 9. Animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective (3)
  5. 11. Any event that changes genetic structure (8)
  6. 12. A long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like (3)
  7. 13. Growth anew of lost tissue or destroyed parts or organs (12)
  8. 14. A purine base found in DNA and RNA (7)
  9. 15. Center of an atom or a cell (7)

Down

  1. 1. Cell division in which the nucleus divides into nuclei containing the same number of chromosomes (7)
  2. 3. The process of generating offspring (12)
  3. 6. A distinguishing feature of your personal nature (5)
  4. 7. Augustinian monk and botanist whose experiments in breeding garden peas led to his eventual (6)
  5. 8. Hereditary succession to a title or an office or property (11)
  6. 10. The biological process whereby genetic factors are transmitted from one generation to the next (8)
  7. 16. The male reproductive cell (5)