Telomeres are stretches of protective,
repetitive nucleotide sequences at the ends of chromosomes.
Telomeres are
repetitive nucleotide sequences found at the end of chromosomes which protect them from deteriorating during the process of replication.
Not exact matches
A class of
repetitive sequences, 7 — 100
nucleotides each, that span 500 — 20,000 bp, and are especially located throughout the genome, towards chromosome ends.