BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cirrhosis, Laboratory Mouse, Zygosity

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Theme 4: modules 1 & 2 applied lecture. There is one origin of replication in prokaryotic chromosomes. A problem at the end of the chromosome. Rna primer must be removed, leaving single stranded dna that can"t be replicated. Telomerase is expressed in germ cells, embryonic stem cells, and cancer cells. Cellular aging is associated with loss of telomere. Increasing age is associated with a decrease in telomere length. Telomeres are ribonucleoprotein structures capping the end of every linear chromosome. In all vertebrates, they are composed of ttaggg repeats coated with specific protecting proteins. Telomeres shorten with each mitotic cell division, but telomerase, a reverse transcriptase, elongate telomeres in very specific cells, such as embryonic and adult stem cells. The telomeres of most laboratory mice are 5 to 10 times longer than in humans, but their lifespan is 30 times shorter.

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