What Is a Telomere?
Telomeres are distinctive structures found at the ends of our chromosomes. They consist of the same short DNA sequence repeated over and over again.
Topics
- telomere
- DNA
- sequence
- chromosomes
- bases
- base pair
- nucleus
- cell
- division
- replication
- gene
- apoptosis
- telomerase
- enzyme
- somatic
- germline
- cancer
- medicine
- diabetes
- ageing
- germ cell
- stem cell
- fertility