The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word GENES , but the solution may also be DNA which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in New York Times).
Family inheritance crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| GENES | 60 % | 5 |
| GENE | 20 % | 4 |
| DNA | 20 % | 3 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Family inheritance
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- legacy
- birthright
- gene
- estate
- hereditary
- inherited
- succeed
- transmitted
- come
- heirloom
- heredity
- heritage
Crossword Answer definitions
GENES noun- A theoretical unit of heredity of living organisms; a gene may take several values and in principle predetermines a precise trait of an organism's form (phenotype), such as hair color.
- A segment of DNA or RNA from a cell's or an organism's genome, that may take several forms and thus parameterizes a phenomenon, in general the structure of a protein; locus.
More crossword clues leading to the same solutions
Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution
More clues leading to the result GENES
- Objects of splicing, perhaps
- Autry and Rayburn
- Heredity factors
- Units of inheritance
- Mendel studied them
- Subjects of modern mapping
- Triplets share them
- Relayers of traits
- Heredity units
- Kelly and Rayburn
More clues leading to the result GENE
- "Star Trek" creator Roddenberry
- Kelly or Hackman
- Mutation undergoer
- Rayburn of game shows
- Trait carrier
- Character builder
- Chromosome part
- Hereditary character marker
- Hereditary factor
- Producer Roddenberry