DNA Replication Worksheet with Word Search and Scramble

- Grades
- Grades 9–12
- Pages
- 4
- File type
- Multiple File Types
- Answer key
- Included
- 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:
DNA
GENE
Chromosome
Nucleotide
Base pair
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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