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The Clue
___ mapping (modern science effort) (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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Characteristic governor
Chromosome carrier
Chromosome component
Dancer Kelly
DNA element
Filial inheritance
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Hereditary factor
Hereditary ruler?
Hereditary unit
Heredity carrier
Heredity factor
Heredity unit
Kind of pool
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Man of heredity?
Mapped item
Part of an inheritance?
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Sarazen or Tunney
Spliced item
Tierney or Tunney
Trait carrier
Trait determinant
Wilder or Fowler
Factor in Mendel's law
Kelly's hereditary unit?
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Subject of passing concern?
One that's passed along
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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"