nucleic acids 0.0 / 5 ? BiologyDNA, genetics and evolutionA2/A-levelOCR Created by: emilyamkerrCreated on: 17-04-19 11:46 1073591468 Across 1. large molecule containing many nucleotides (14) 4. shape of DNA molecule, due to coiling of the two sugar phosphate backbone strands into a right handed spiral conjugation (6, 5) 5. a length of DNA that codes for a polypeptide or for a length of RNA that is involved in regulating gene expression (4) 6. enzyme that catalyses formation of DNA from activated deoxyribose nucleotides, using single stranded DNA as a template (3, 10) 8. molecule that when repeated makes up a polymer. amino acids are the monomers of proteins. nucleotides are this of nucleic acids (7) 10. formation of a protein at ribosomes by assembling amino acids into a particular sequence according to the coded instructions carried from DNA to the ribosome by mRNA (11) Down 1. a large polypeptide of 100 or more amino acids. however the terms are often used synonymously and insulin may be described as a small version of this (7) 3. enzyme that catalyses the breaking of hydrogen bonds between the nitrogenous pairs of bases in a DNA molecule (8) 7. molecule consisting of a five-carbon sugar, a phosphate group and a nitrogenous base (10) 9. a polymer made of many amino acid units joined together by peptide bonds. for example insulin which is made up of 51 amino acids (11)
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