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Mutation Crossword Puzzle

Horizontales
Is an agent with the capacity to cause cancer in humans.
Is the result of a ____ mutation, a change in just one nucleotide in the gene for hemoglobin.
Consists of a piece of DNA that is abnormally copied one or more times.
Serve the functions of promoting normal growth, repairing damaged tissue, contributing to the body's immune system, and making enzymes.
A molecule in all cells, and many viruses, containing genetic codes for inheritance.
Chromosome, DNA-containing bodies, located in the ____ of most living things, that hold most of the organism's genes.
The divergence of evolutionary lineages and creation of new species.
Changes the number of DNA bases in a gene by adding a piece of DNA.
A chemical or physical factor that increases the rate of mutation.
A mutation that occurs in the egg or sperm cells, which therefore can be passed on to the organism's offspring.
Verticales
A mutation in which chromosomes exchange parts.
Organic compounds made of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and (in some cases) sulfur bonded in characteristic formations.
A unit of information about a particular heritable trait.
Mutations that results from an chemicals, UV rays, x-rays, or some other environmental agent.
A mutation that occurs in cells other than the reproductive, or sex, cells.
This type of mutation occurs when the addition or loss of DNA bases changes a gene's reading frame.
This type of mutation is a change in one DNA base pair that results in the substitution of one amino acid for another in the protein made by a gene.
Changes the number of DNA bases by removing a piece of DNA.
Capable of being inherited.
The molecule translated from DNA in the cell nucleus, the control center of the cell, that directs protein synthesis in the cytoplasm, or the space between cells.