Heredity unit
Crossword Clue and Answers

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Publications

  • The Sun Cryptic - Friday, 25 Jun 2021
  • The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Sunday, 7 Mar 2021
  • The Sun Cryptic - Saturday, 6 Feb 2021
  • The Sun Cryptic - Wednesday, 18 Nov 2020
  • USA Today - Sunday, 15 Nov 2020
  • The Sun Cryptic - Sunday, 18 Oct 2020
  • The Sun Cryptic - Friday, 4 Sep 2020
  • The Daily Mail Smallest Hardest - Sunday, 13 Oct 2019

Crossword Answers

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RNA
(biochemistry) a long linear polymer of nucleotides found in the nucleus but mainly in the cytoplasm of a cell where it is associated with microsomes; it transmits genetic information from DNA to the cytoplasm and controls certain chemical processes in the cell; "ribonucleic acid is the genetic material of some viruses"

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GENE
(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"