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<p>&nbsp;Abstract</p>
<p>Telomere = Telo&nbsp;[Greek nouns telos (<em>&tau;έ&lambda;&omicron;&sigmaf;</em>) &#39;end&#39; ] + Mere [Greek (<em>&mu;έ&rho;&omicron;&sigmaf;</em>, root: <em>&mu;&epsilon;&rho;-</em>) &#39;part.&#39;], meaning ending part.</p>
 
<p>Telomere, meaning the ending part, is actually located at the end part of&nbsp;each chromosome.</p>
 
<p>Telomere protects the end of the chromosome from degradation by being truncated itself instead of chromosome.</p>
 
<p>It is known that telomere length is getting shortened during the</p>
 
<p>Telomere consists of repetitive nucleotide sequences. For vertebrates, the sequence of telomere&nbsp;nucleotides is TTAGGG.</p>
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