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The Clue
Chromosome constituent (4 letter answer)
The Answer
GENE
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Notes
The answer GENE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 70 puzzles.
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Actor Wilder
Appearance determinant
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Autry or Wilder
Characteristic carrier
Characteristic governor
Chromosome carrier
Chromosome component
Chromosome part
Dancer Kelly
Director Saks
DNA component
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Hereditary factor
Hereditary transmitter
Hereditary unit
Heredity carrier
Heredity transmitter
Heredity unit
Inheritance factor
Kelly or Tunney
Kind of pool
Kind of therapy
Tierney or Hackman
Tierney or Tunney
Trait carrier
Trait determinant
Tunney or Sarazen
Unit of inheritance
Wilder or Fowler
Writer Fowler
Factor in Mendel's law
It has a code
Molecular biology topic
Part of the double helix
Part of one's inheritance
Provider of coded instructions
Subject of some engineering
Family hand-me-down?
It helps build character
___ mapping (modern science effort)
There might be one for depression
Definition
GENE as a noun:
1. (gene, cistron, factor) = (genetics) a segment of DNA that is involved in producing a polypeptide chain; it can include regions preceding and following the coding DNA as well as introns between the exons; it is considered a unit of heredity; "genes were formerly called factors"