Gifts from Mom and Dad

The answer

GENES

5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the GENES answer page.

Used 6 times across 5 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 2014. It appears in 2 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for GENES

Every other clue in this collection answered by GENES, most used first.

• Trait carriers - used 56 times, most recently in 2026
• Heredity units - used 36 times, most recently in 2025
• Heredity carriers - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Heredity factors - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Trait transmitters - used 22 times, most recently in 2026
• Chromosome components - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
• Hereditary factors - used 16 times, most recently in 2023
• Pool contents? - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• Hereditary units - used 15 times, most recently in 2026
• Units of heredity - used 13 times, most recently in 2026
• Bits of heredity - used 10 times, most recently in 2026
• Chromosome parts - used 10 times, most recently in 2025
• Factors in heredity - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Code carriers - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• Character parts - used 6 times, most recently in 2006
• Gift from parents - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
• Pool components - used 6 times, most recently in 2019

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• Up and about - ASTIR, used 274 times
• On the up and up - LEGIT, used 124 times
• Out-and-out - UTTER, used 117 times
• It comes from the heart - AORTA, used 108 times
• "Pomp and Circumstance" composer - ELGAR, used 99 times
• From the top - AGAIN, used 93 times

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