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The Clue
They may be dominant (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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Autry and Kelly
Carriers of heredity
Chromosome components
Chromosome constituents
Chromosome contents
Chromosome parts
Chromosome units
Code carriers
Family inheritance
Hereditary factors
Hereditary ingredients
Hereditary units
Heredity carriers
Heredity determinants
Heredity determiners
Heredity factors
Heredity units
Inheritance carriers
Inheritance items
Kelly and Raymond
Kelly and Tierney
Littler and Wilder
Mendel's factors
Offspring's inheritance
Pool contents?
Sarazen and Littler
They're in the pool
Trait carriers
Columbus's birthplace, to René
Factors involved in cloning
Father-to-son bequests
Heredity, so to speak
Subject of biotech study
They run in the blood
Twins share them
Families usually share them
They make you you
Things passed on from Mom and Dad
They help make you you
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"