Telomere
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Abstract
Telomere = Telo [Greek nouns telos (τέλος) 'end' ] + Mere [Greek (μέρος, root: μερ-) 'part.'], meaning ending part.
Telomere, meaning the ending part, is actually located at the end part of each chromosome.
Telomere protects the end of the chromosome from degradation by being truncated itself instead of chromosome.
It is known that telomere length is getting shortened during the
Telomere consists of repetitive nucleotide sequences. For vertebrates, the sequence of telomere nucleotides is TTAGGG.