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Man who provides Europe with store of DNA (6)

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I believe the answer is:

eugene

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'man who provides europe with store of dna' is the definition.
'Eugene' can be an answer for 'man'. I am not certain of the remainder of the definition.

'man who provides europe' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'man' could be 'eugen' and 'eugen' is located in the answer.
'europe' could be 'e' (abbreviation eg in E number) and 'e' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for eugene that I've seen before include ". . . . . . Onegin (Tchaikovsky) (6)" , "- Onegin, Tchaikovsky opera" , "opera, but only first half" , "Dramatist...... O'Neill wrote 'The Iceman Cometh'" , "- Onegin (Pushkin)" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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