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The Clue
Self-replicating things (5 letter answer)
The Answer
GENES
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Notes
The answer GENES is common and appears about once every 200 puzzles.
Related Clues
Sarazen et al.
Autry and Kelly
Carriers of heredity
Chromosome components
Chromosome constituents
Chromosome contents
Chromosome parts
Chromosome units
Code carriers
DNA factors
Family inheritance
Hereditary factors
Hereditary ingredients
Heredity carriers
Heredity determiners
Heredity factors
Heredity, informally
Inheritance carriers
Kelly and Autry
Kelly and Raymond
Parental units?
Pool contents?
Sarazen and Littler
Siskel and Sarazen
They're in the pool
Tunney and Sarazen
Wilder and Hackman
Father-to-son bequests
Heredity, so to speak
Source of family traits
These contain DNA
They run in the blood
Tierney and Barry of the screen
Twins share them
Hand-me-down units
They make you you
Things passed on from Mom and Dad
They make some people blond
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"