But it does have an important purpose. It's sort of like the plastic tip on each end of a shoelace. It may not help you tie your shoe, but that little plastic tip keeps the rest of the shoelace…the shoestring…from unraveling into weak and useless threads. Well, the telomeres at ...
It is the purpose of this article to discuss what we can learn from contemporary viruses about their potential role during the history of life and evolution – apart from causing diseases. Their contribution to the development of life, genome composition, genetic diversity, our environment, and ou...
The assumption is that, even if this DNA doesn't make up any of the genes, it must serve some other purpose. Anyway,…if we examine the ends of these coils of DNA…, we'll find a sequence of DNA at each end of every human chromosome…called a “telomere.”Now, a telomere is a...
But it does have an important purpose. It's sort of like the plastic tip on each end of a shoelace. It may not help you tie your shoe, but that little plastic tip keeps the rest of the shoelace…the shoestring…from unraveling into weak and useless threads. Well, the telomeres at ...