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The Clue
Part of the double helix (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 carrier
Chromosome component
Chromosome part
Director Saks
Golfer Sarazen
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Hereditary factor
Hereditary unit
Heredity carrier
Heredity transmitter
Heredity unit
Kind of therapy
Man of heredity?
Part of a chromosome
Part of a code
Part of a pool
Pool member
Pool part?
Sarazen or Tunney
Trait carrier
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Biological trait carrier
Certain transmission control
Germ plasm element
It builds character
It has a code
Subject of modern "mapping"
Subject of passing concern?
It may be dominant
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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"