Sentences with phrase «ends of shoelaces»
One Nobel Prize - winning scientist who studies telomeres has compared them to aglets — the plastic or metal sheath covering ends of shoelaces.
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They are sometimes compared to the plastic ends of shoelaces, which protect shoelaces from fraying.
Remember to put tape at the end of the shoelace or string.
Telomeres are caps on the ends of chromosomes, protecting them much as plastic tips on the ends of shoelaces keep the laces from fraying.
They are caps at the end of each strand of DNA that protect the chromosomes, like the plastic tips at the end of shoelaces.
Scientists long suspected they stabilized the structure of the chromosome, preventing the tips from fraying, much like the plastic sheaths at the ends of shoelaces to prevent them from unraveling.
In terms of function, telomeres are like the plastic coating (aglet) on the ends of shoelaces that prevents the laces from unraveling.
«Telomeres function a bit like the plastic caps at the ends of shoelaces and protect the coding DNA from loss during cell division.
Telomeres are important because they stop chromosomes from «fraying» or clumping together and «scrambling» the genetic codes they contain, performing a role similar to the plastic tips on the end of shoelaces, to which they have been likened.
Mitchell compared them to the plastic covering on the end of a shoelace.
In this, they sound less like the ends of shoelaces and more like a lit candle.
Geneticist Elizabeth Blackburn compared them to the little plastic caps on the ends of your shoelaces.
POT1 plays a role in protecting the ends of our chromosomes *, a little like the caps on the ends of shoelaces that stop them fraying.
During the DNA replication process, telomeres keep the DNA together (like how the plastic caps on the end of shoelaces keep them from unraveling).
Telomeres are often compared to the caps on the ends of shoelaces that keep them from fraying.
(Think of the plastic tips on the ends of our shoelaces.)
I think of them like these plastic protectors on the ends of shoelaces.