One disease affecting these structures is X-chromosome linked to mutations in the DKC1 gene and may require bone marrow transplants. Dyskerin helps to stabilize a catalytic complex that acts on this structure. Deficiencies in maintaining these structures, which are measured by the Q-FISH technique, are a major risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Cajal bodies may serve to recruit RNA structures that act on these structures. The Hayflick limit is based on the length of these structures that can be extended by TERT. Shortened examples of these structures that lose their shelterin cap can trigger senescence, and these structures consist of repeating TTAGGG motifs. For 10 points, what DNA sequences protect the ends of chromosomes? ■END■
| Northern California | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 60.00 |
| Southern California | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 78.33 |
| Florida | Main | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 102.50 |
| Great Lakes | Main | Y | 7 | 86% | 0% | 0% | 73.50 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 10% | 90.50 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic (2) | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.40 |
| Lower Midwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 75% | 115.00 |
| Upper Midwest | Main | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 84.10 |
| North | Main | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 102.60 |
| Northeast | Main | Y | 12 | 83% | 0% | 25% | 82.00 |
| Northwest | Main | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 81.50 |
| South Central | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 88.88 |
| Southeast | Main | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 93.63 |
| Upstate NY | Main | Y | 1 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 73.00 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Landaeta | FSU | Melbourne A | 19 | -5 |
| Biyang Zhang | Michigan B | Notre Dame C | 31 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | Pitt A | 43 | 10 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | MIT A | 43 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Dartmouth | 43 | 10 |
| Swapneel Mandal | UAB A | Huntsville A | 43 | -5 |
| Aaryan Sumesh | Berkeley D | Berkeley C | 44 | 10 |
| Shiva Tegulla | UCF A | FIU | 46 | 10 |
| Allan Lee | Stanford B | Stanford C | 48 | 10 |
| Snehan Saroch | Louisville A | Purdue B | 54 | -5 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell-UG | Williams | 56 | -5 |
| Emily Kadolph | Virginia Tech A | Tennessee A | 58 | -5 |
| Mohammad Khan | UTD A | Arizona State B | 60 | -5 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Indiana B | 65 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Illinois C | 65 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 65 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Bruin A | 66 | -5 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Purdue A | 68 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | CWRU A | 68 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | North Carolina B | 68 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina C | 68 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 68 | 10 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Columbia C | 68 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Clemenceau | 69 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA B | 70 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 70 | 10 |
| Malachi Ledford | Tusculum | Tennessee B | 71 | 10 |
| Tanay Bodducherla | Berkeley E | Berkeley B | 72 | 10 |
| Tate Osborne | Auburn A | Vanderbilt B | 72 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 73 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Chicago C | 73 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | Claremont Pitzer | 73 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Indiana A | 73 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Northwestern C | 73 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern A | 73 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 73 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Columbia B | 73 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | UIC | 74 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Clemson A | 75 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSB | 76 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown C | 76 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Orlando | 76 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 76 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | USC | 76 | 10 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | Pitt B | 76 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | MSU A | 76 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | OSU D | 76 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty A | 76 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois B | 76 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 76 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Alberta B | 76 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh B | 76 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Northwestern B | 76 | 10 |
| Ian Chow | Washington A | Washington B | 79 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech C | Georgia Tech D | 80 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia C | 82 | 10 |
| Ethan Buermann | Huntsville B | Alabama B | 82 | 10 |
| Connor Farquhar | Amherst A | Brown A | 83 | 10 |
| Mark Tawfik | Rutgers B | Lehigh A | 87 | 10 |
| Shreyas Sinha | Texas B | UCO | 91 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 95 | -5 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 95 | 10 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Nebraska | 95 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Tulsa | 95 | 10 |
| Virginia Brooks | Minnesota C | Minnesota B | 98 | -5 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 98 | -5 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Brandeis Wilson | 101 | 10 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Roanoke | 101 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU C | 101 | -5 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA C | 102 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | ERAU A | 102 | -5 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue B | Louisville A | 102 | 10 |
| Graham Price | Kenyon A | MSU B | 102 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Liberty C | 102 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Sewanee A | 102 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | Tufts A | 103 | -5 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Cornell-UG | 103 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Vassar A | 103 | 10 |
| Aidan Bernardo | Melbourne B | USF | 109 | 10 |
| Riley Roessler | Bowdoin B | Amherst B | 111 | 10 |
| Milo Scanlon | Macalester B | Macalester A | 112 | 10 |
| Alexander Mayans | Arizona State B | UTD A | 112 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Michigan D | 114 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty B | 114 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | ERAU B | 115 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | FSU | 115 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UCF B | 115 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | UF E | 115 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Louisville B | 115 | 10 |
| Niki Ilia | BC B | Bowdoin A | 115 | 0 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 115 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon B | 115 | 0 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Pitt C | 115 | 0 |
| Nick Fowler | Virginia B | South Carolina B | 115 | 0 |
| Gavin Rittgers | South Carolina B | Virginia B | 115 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Virginia Tech A | 115 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Michigan A | 115 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota A | 115 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Minnesota C | 115 | 10 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Brown B | 115 | 0 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Tufts B | 115 | 0 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Auburn B | 115 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech B | 115 | 10 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 115 | 10 |
| Camden Walker | WashU B | Missouri B | 115 | 10 |
| Conner Yamnitz | WashU C | Truman State | 115 | 10 |
| Alex Dzurick | William Woods | WashU D | 115 | 10 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Ohio | 115 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | UAB A | 115 | 10 |