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The Clue

Kelly or Rayburn (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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DNA element
DNA host
Filial inheritance
Hereditary factor
Hereditary unit
Heredity carrier
Heredity transmitter
Heredity unit
Inheritance factor
Item in a pool
Kind of therapy
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Means of inheritance
Part of a chromosome
Pool part?
Sarazen or Littler
Spliced item
Tierney or Tunney
Trait carrier
Tunney or Sarazen
Tunney or Tierney
Unit of heredity
Unit of inheritance
Wilder or Fowler
Blood type determinant
It has a code
Kelly's hereditary unit?
Molecular biology topic
Part of one's inheritance
Good name for a DNA expert
It helps build character
Pulitzer-winning journalist Weingarten

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"