DNA Replication Worksheet with Word Search and Scramble

DNA replication vocabulary review in three parts: a word search of 25 terms, a scramble of the same terms and a define-each-term task, with answer keys and editable files.
Grades
Grades 9–12
Pages
4
File type
Multiple File Types
Answer key
Included

Updated Sep 20, 2026

Subject
Biology, Life Sciences, Science
Topic
Word Search, Word Scramble
Resource types
Word Searches
Answer key
Included

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About this resource

Your students will love this engaging science review activity. Everyone loves word searches and scrambles and they make for a great review activity that is fun and competitive.

This interactive game reinforces key scientific concepts and theories, ensuring curriculum relevance and accuracy.

The game package includes 25 common DNA and DNA Replication terms and concepts.

The first part of this activity is a word search using the common terms while the second part uses the same terms in a word scramble and define where your students need to unscramble the word and define it.

Simply print and go. This is a no-prep activity and can be used to introduce terms, review, or as additional work for those who finish early.

Tailor the experience to the level of your students. You can use one or both parts to help your students learn key concept terms.

Some example terms include:

  1. DNA

  2. GENE

  3. Chromosome

  4. Nucleotide

  5. Base pair

  6. HELIX

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Define key DNA replication terms such as Okazaki fragment and DNA polymerase

  • Recognize and spell DNA and protein synthesis vocabulary

Teaching tips

  • The unscramble-and-define version asks more of students than the unscramble-only version, so the two can be matched to readiness.

Skills covered

  • Term recognition — finding DNA replication vocabulary in a word search grid

  • Defining terms — unscrambling each word and writing its meaning

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • DNA polymerase

  • Okazaki fragments

  • Leading and lagging strands

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