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The Clue

They help make you you (5 letter answer)

The Answer

GENES

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Notes

The answer GENES is common and appears about once every 200 puzzles.

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Sarazen et al.
Carriers of heredity
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Chromosome contents
Chromosome parts
Chromosome units
Code carriers
DNA factors
Family inheritance
Hereditary factors
Hereditary units
Heredity carriers
Heredity determiners
Heredity factors
Inheritance carriers
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Kelly and Raymond
Kelly and Tierney
Littler and Wilder
Mendel's factors
Offspring's inheritance
Pool contents?
Siskel and Sarazen
Trait carriers
Tunney and Kelly
Wilder and Hackman
Factors involved in cloning
Father-to-son bequests
Self-replicating things
Source of family traits
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Tierney and Barry of the screen
Twins share them
Families usually share them
Hand-me-down units
They make you you
Things passed on from Mom and Dad

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"