Genetics & DNA

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• The fraying plastic tip on the shoelace of life (8)
• The result of crossing lines to find a middle ground (6)
• A clerical error that drives the engine of change (8)
• A triplet of letters that dictates an arrival (5)
• A biological echo of an existing original (5)
• Above the script, determining which lines are actually spoken (11)
• Vigor found only when the parents are opposites (9)
• A major base that pairs with a cross-shaped letter (7)
• A short necessary start for a long replication story (6)
• The expressed survivor of the splicing room floor (4)
• The alpha character that masks its partner presence (8)

Down

• A photographic lineup of the cellular suspects (9)
• A chemical gag that keeps certain expressions quiet (11)
• The complete library where every shelf is a chromosome (6)
• The singular union of a zero and a one (6)
• The process of copying the master file into a portable format (13)
• The monomeric currency spent to build a double helix (10)
• The enzymatic zipper that pulls apart the spiral (8)
• Molecular scissors that sound like they belong in a salad drawer (6)
• One of several versions found at the same neighborhood locus (6)

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