Unit of inheritance

The answer

GENE

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GENE answer page.

Used 10 times across 8 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1987. It appears in 6 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
• Unit of heredity - used 40 times, most recently in 2026
• Chromosome component - used 34 times, most recently in 2026
• Characteristic carrier - used 31 times, most recently in 2025
• Hereditary factor - used 29 times, most recently in 2024
• Bit of heredity - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
• Actor Wilder - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
• Heredity factor - used 23 times, most recently in 2024
• Part of a chromosome - used 21 times, most recently in 2026
• Drummer Krupa - used 19 times, most recently in 2023
• Kind of pool - used 19 times, most recently in 2018
• Simmons of KISS - used 18 times, most recently in 2026
• Cowboy Autry - used 17 times, most recently in 2023
• Bit of DNA - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Man's nickname - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• __ pool - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• Inheritance factor - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• "Star Trek" creator Roddenberry - used 15 times, most recently in 2025
• Heredity carrier - used 14 times, most recently in 2022
• Trait determinant - used 14 times, most recently in 2021
• Dancer Kelly - used 13 times, most recently in 2025
• Kelly or Hackman - used 13 times, most recently in 2022
• __ therapy - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Autry or Kelly - used 12 times, most recently in 2024
• Basic unit of heredity - used 11 times, most recently in 2026
• Character builder? - used 11 times, most recently in 2024
• Chromosome carrier - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• DNA sequence - used 11 times, most recently in 2025
• Kelly or Siskel - used 10 times, most recently in 2023
• Kelly or Wilder - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Code carrier - used 9 times, most recently in 2020
• Gift from a parent - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• Hackman or Wilder - used 9 times, most recently in 2023
• Kelly or Krupa - used 9 times, most recently in 2015
• Pool member? - used 9 times, most recently in 2018
• Actress Tierney. - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Chromosome occupant - used 8 times, most recently in 2007
• Chromosome unit - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• It may be dominant - used 8 times, most recently in 2021
• Kind of therapy - used 8 times, most recently in 2020
• Part of one's inheritance - used 8 times, most recently in 2025
• Wilder - used 8 times, most recently in 2022
• DNA carrier - used 7 times, most recently in 2020
• Hackman of Hollywood - used 7 times, most recently in 2016
• It may be spliced - used 7 times, most recently in 2013
• Part of a pool - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
• Trait determiner - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Chromosome constituent - used 6 times, most recently in 2016
• DNA component - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• Inheritance unit - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Kelly or Autry - used 6 times, most recently in 2020
• Pool unit - used 6 times, most recently in 2019
• "Star Trek" producer Roddenberry - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
• Wilder of "Young Frankenstein" - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Wilder or Hackman - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

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