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telomeres
n. (plural of telomere English)
Usage examples of "telomeres".
Each time the cell divides, it loses a little bit more of its telomeres, so that the strand keeps getting shorter as the cell gets older.
After they injected it, the telomeres regained their youthful length and the cells kept on dividing happily way beyond their life span.
We can look at the length of the telomeres to come up with an estimate of the age of the person.
Those little squiggles you see there are telomeres, which shorten each time the cell divides.
DNA in the nucleus, for example, and as the templates for making the structures called telomeres that stabilize the ends of chromosomes.