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Telomerase enzyme plays role in
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Telomerase is ribonucleoprotein reverse transcriptase carrying RNA template that adds TTAGGG telomeric repeats to eukaryotic chromosome 3' ends, compensating for end-replication problem in lagging strand synthesis, preventing senescence, not involved in whole genome replication.
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