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The Clue
Hair coloring carrier (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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Tierney
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Autry or Kelly
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Characteristic carrier
Chromosome part
Director Saks
DNA host
Golfer Sarazen
Hackman or Tierney
Hereditary factor
Hereditary unit
Heredity carrier
Heredity factor
Heredity transmitter
Kind of pool
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Littler or Wilder
Mapped item
McCarthy or Sarazen
Means of inheritance
Part of a chromosome
Part of a code
Sarazen or Littler
Sarazen or Tunney
Trait carrier
Trait determinant
Unit of heredity
Wild Wilder
Wilder or Fowler
Writer Fowler
Biological trait carrier
Kelly's hereditary unit?
Molecular biology topic
Provider of coded instructions
Subject of some engineering
Good name for a DNA expert
"The Match Game" host Rayburn
Wilder who's often wild
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"