The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word GENOME
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More clues leading to the result GENOME
- Our personal inheritance for which financier holds key
- Zurich banker invests European cell contents
- Ugly little creature welcomes electronic information about make-up
- Swiss banker invests energy in complete set of personal make-up
- DNA sequence profile finally spotted in creature of legend
- It makes you an ugly little man when injecting drug
- Sinister financier getting hold of electronic information in cell
- Mostly understand Alchemi taking number in sequence
- Information out before mass energy was studied in nuclear project
- Gone off setter? It’s the chromosomes!
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The straight part
We know that "Our personal inheritance" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case our personal inheritance = genome.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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What does GENOME mean?
GENOME noun- The complete genetic information (either DNA or, in some viruses, RNA) of an organism.