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The Clue

Kelly or Tenace (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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An Autry
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___ splicing
Autry or Kelly
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Character builder?
Characteristic carrier
Characteristic governor
Chromosome part
DNA factor
Fowler or Tunney
Fowler or Wilder
Hereditary factor
Hereditary ruler?
Hereditary unit
Heredity factor
Inheritance factor
Item in a pool
Kelly or Rayburn
Kelly or Tunney
Kind of pool
Kind of therapy
Littler or Wilder
Man of heredity?
Part of a chromosome
Part of a pool
Sarazen or Littler
Tierney or Tunney
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Biological trait carrier
Germ plasm element
Intron and exon site
Subject of some engineering
Blue eyes producer, maybe
Family hand-me-down?
It may be dominant
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"