Initial information with us in DNA can make mental giants (8)
I believe the answer is:
geniuses
'mental giants' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'initial information with us in dna can' is the wordplay.
'initial' suggests taking the first letters.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'in' indicates putting letters inside.
'dna can' becomes 'genes' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
The first letter of 'information' is 'i'.
'i'+'us'='ius'
'ius' going inside 'genes' is 'GENIUSES'.
'make' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for geniuses that I've seen before include "Brilliant people" , "great minds" , "Brains" , "People of extraordinary mental powers" , "Brainboxes" .)