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Hereditary Unit Crossword Clue

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noun

• (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

31%4Unit of hereditary measurement
noun

• The smallest administrative unit of land in feudal England, corresponding to the Anglo-Saxon tithing and the modern parish.

• A villa; a country residence.

verb

• (now uncommon or literary) To wish, desire (something).

• (nowadays rare) To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that).

• (auxiliary) To habitually do (a given action).

• (auxiliary) To choose to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in negation.

• (auxiliary) Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.

• (auxiliary) To be able to, to have the capacity to.

• (auxiliary) Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".

• To wish, desire.

• To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.

• To try to make (something) happen by using one's will (intention).

• To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).

29%12 Variants of a hereditary unit
noun

• (genetics) either of a pair (or series) of alternative forms of a gene that can occupy the same locus on a particular chromosome and that control the same character

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Telegraph Mini10 Sep 2023 Down 5
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