Moderate difficulty suitable for most players
Cryptic Codes of Cellular Machinery
Challenging puzzle for experienced crossword solvers
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Across
- 1. DNA’s script copied before protein production
- 2. Virus that mugs bacteria for replication
- 3. Scaffolding network giving cells their shape and strength
- 5. Reticulum where proteins and lipids get stitched (first half)
- 7. Enzyme preserving chromosome tips against shortening
- 9. Evolutionary roadmap of related species
- 12. One half of a replicated chromosome’s embrace
- 13. Foreign molecule igniting immune sentinels
Down
- 4. Light-powered green factory crafting sugars
- 6. Organism with a nucleus in its cells
- 8. Enzyme fixing atmospheric nitrogen into life’s currency
- 10. Chromosome pairs that share ancestry and gene loci
- 11. System where glands secrete into the bloodstream, not ducts
- 14. Variant sibling in the gene family
- 15. Organelle's acidic sac, the cell’s demolition crew
- 16. Cellular dance yielding two identical daughters
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