Hereditary units

The answer

GENES

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

Used 15 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2026; first recorded in 1973. It appears in 7 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
• 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
• Gifts from Mom and Dad - used 6 times, most recently in 2023
• 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.

• Units of force - DYNES, used 116 times
• Farm units - ACRES, used 55 times
• Loudness units - SONES, used 49 times
• Force units - DYNES, used 40 times
• Light bulb units - WATTS, used 32 times
• Memory units - BYTES, used 32 times

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