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The Clue
There's one for curly hair (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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Chromosome component
Chromosome constituent
Chromosome part
DNA carrier
DNA component
Golfer Sarazen
Hackman of Hollywood
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Hereditary factor
Hereditary unit
Heredity factor
Item in a pool
Kind of therapy
Means of inheritance
Part of a chromosome
Part of an inheritance?
Part of a pool
Personality determinant
Sarazen or Littler
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Unit of heredity
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Part of some pools
Subject of some engineering
One that's passed along
Blue eyes producer, maybe
Good name for a DNA expert
It may be dominant
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"