Enter a clue or pattern or both:
The Clue
DNA element (4 letter answer)
The Answer
GENE
Tags
Notes
The answer GENE is seen frequently, appearing about once every 70 puzzles.
Related Clues
Allele
Sarazen
Wilder
Actor Wilder
Author Fowler
Autry or Barry
Autry or Hackman
Autry or Tunney
Champion's rider
Character builder?
Characteristic governor
Chromosome carrier
Chromosome part
DNA carrier
DNA component
Hackman or Barry
Hackman or Wilder
Hereditary factor
Hereditary unit
Heredity carrier
Heredity factor
Heredity unit
Inheritance factor
Kelly or Hackman
Kind of pool
Mapped item
Means of inheritance
Personality influencer
Sarazen or Kelly
Something from a parent
Spliced item
Tierney or Tunney
Trait determinant
Trait transmitter
Tunney or Sarazen
Unit of heredity
Writer Fowler
Barry of "Bat Masterson"
Certain transmission control
Part of some pools
Subject of modern "mapping"
Subject of some engineering
There's one for curly hair
"The Match Game" host Rayburn
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"