Telomeres protect DNA from cleavage with repeating units, and the enzyme telomerase can replace DNA lost during replication.
Telomeres consist of repeating units at DNA ends to protect the coding regions, and the enzyme telomerase can replace lost DNA during replication.
| Text | Telomeres have a single repeating unit at the end of DNA in order to keep the actual DNA from being cleaved. The DNA that is lost in each round of replication can be replaced by telomerase::enzyme |
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