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telomere

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telomere /telo·mere/ (tel´o-mēr) an extremity of a chromosome, which has specific properties, one of which is a polarity that prevents reunion with any fragment after a chromosome has been broken.
tel·o·mere (tl-mîr, tl-)
n.
Either end of a chromosome; a terminal chromosome.

telomere
[tel′ō·mēr]
either of the ends of a chromosome, which possess special properties, among them a polarity that prevents their reunion with any fragment after a chromosome has been broken.

telomere [tel´o-mēr]
an extremity of a chromosome, which has specific properties, one of which is a polarity that prevents reunion with any fragment after a chromosome has been broken.

telomere
an extremity of a chromosome, which has specific properties, one of which is a polarity that prevents reunion with any fragment after a chromosome has been broken.


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Other work has linked some of these psychiatric and medical problems with shortened telomere length.
Both physical neglect and emotional neglected were significantly liked to telomere length," it concluded.
In 1984, Blackburn and her then grad student, Greider, also identified telomerase, the enzyme that makes the telomere DNA.
 
 
 
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