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 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 65 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Illinois C | 65 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Bruin A | 66 | -5 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Columbia C | 68 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Purdue A | 68 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | CWRU A | 68 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 68 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | North Carolina B | 68 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina C | 68 | 10 |
| Andrew Pham | MIT B | Brandeis Clemenceau | 69 | 10 |
| Kevin Ye | Simon Fraser | British Columbia D | 70 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai | UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms | UCLA B | 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 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Columbia B | 73 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 73 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Chicago C | 73 | 10 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Indiana A | 73 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | Claremont Pitzer | 73 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Northwestern C | 73 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern A | 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 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | Pitt B | 76 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | MSU A | 76 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 76 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 76 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | OSU D | 76 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh B | 76 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois B | 76 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown C | 76 | 10 |
| Matthew He | Texas A | Northwestern B | 76 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | USC | 76 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty A | 76 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Orlando | 76 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Alberta 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 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Nebraska | 95 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 95 | -5 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Tulsa | 95 | 10 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 95 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 98 | -5 |
| Virginia Brooks | Minnesota C | Minnesota B | 98 | -5 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU C | 101 | -5 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Roanoke | 101 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Brandeis Wilson | 101 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA C | 102 | 10 |
| Graham Price | Kenyon A | MSU B | 102 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue B | Louisville A | 102 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | ERAU A | 102 | -5 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Liberty C | 102 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Sewanee A | 102 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Vassar A | 103 | 10 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Cornell-UG | 103 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | Tufts A | 103 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | FSU | 115 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UCF B | 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 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Louisville B | 115 | 10 |
| Aaron Marchand | Carleton | Minnesota A | 115 | 10 |
| Anuk Dias | Minnesota B | Minnesota C | 115 | 10 |
| Gavin Littrell | ERAU A | ERAU B | 115 | 10 |
| June Miller | UF B | UF E | 115 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon B | 115 | 0 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Pitt C | 115 | 0 |
| Braden Booth | Missouri A | WashU A | 115 | 10 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Michigan A | 115 | 10 |
| Niki Ilia | BC B | Bowdoin A | 115 | 0 |
| Devon Kumar | Tufts B | Brown B | 115 | 0 |
| Jack Meyers | Brown B | Tufts B | 115 | 0 |
| Amiya Zope | UTD B | Ohio | 115 | 10 |
| Sawyer Smith | Mississippi State A | Auburn B | 115 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech B | 115 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 115 | 10 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | UAB A | 115 | 10 |