Unit of heredity
The crossword clue "Unit of heredity" is answered by GENE, a 4-letter entry. Used 40 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself.
The answer
GENE
4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GENE answer page.
Used 40 times across 18 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1978. It appears in 13 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for GENE
Every other clue in this collection answered by GENE, most used first.
- Heredity unit - used 109 times, most recently in 2026
- Trait carrier - used 73 times, most recently in 2025
- Hereditary unit - used 68 times, most recently in 2026
- Chromosome part - used 59 times, most recently in 2026
- Trait transmitter - used 48 times, most recently in 2026
- Actor Hackman - used 40 times, most recently in 2025
- Chromosome component - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
- Characteristic carrier - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
- Bit of heredity - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
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- Land unit - ACRE, used 124 times
- Farmland unit - ACRE, used 92 times
- Rating unit - STAR, used 80 times
- Memory unit - BYTE, used 78 times
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