Sentence examples for protective ends from inspiring English sources

Telomeres are the protective ends of a chromosome - I've heard them described as a bit like the plastic piece on the end of a shoelace, which protects the lace from fraying each time it's tied.

Telomeres are the protective ends of chromosomes, composed of several kilobases of short repeats.

Telomeres, which form the protective ends of eukaryotic chromosomes, are a ubiquitous and conserved structure of eukaryotic genomes but the basic structural unit of most telomeres, a repeated minisatellite motif with the general consensus sequence TnAmGo, may vary between eukaryotic groups.

For the six patients with a lower tumor edge approximately 2 3 cm from the dentate line, additional protective end ileostomy was performed, and ileostomy reversal surgery was performed three months after the operation.

Wear hair in protective styles to protect ends and retain length.

The BMD modeling of the human iodide uptake inhibition data of Greer et al. (2002) provides an adequately health-protective end point.

We need to delineate the point at which intrinsic and protective adaptation ends and true harmful pathology begins, and how our iatrogenic meddling either helps or hinders.

When, in the course of time, the need for protective barriers ended, there was greater freedom of work and a definite trend toward ornamentation.

"In each instance the protective details ended once a decision had been made that the threat had been mitigated or was no longer present," a spokesman for the Marshals Service said.

Alternatively, the fast-forming, gel-visible dimers could be protective dead-ends in which ROS cause cross-linking that leads to less photoaggregation-prone species.

In the absence of this protective function, chromosome ends would be indistinguishable from accidental DNA double-strand breaks (DSBs), with disastrous consequences for chromosome stability.