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 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 65 | -5 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Illinois C | 65 | -5 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Indiana B | 65 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Bruin A | 66 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Columbia C | 68 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Purdue A | 68 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 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 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | Claremont Pitzer | 73 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 73 | 10 |
| Rahul Rao-Pothuraju | Rowan A | Columbia B | 73 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Chicago C | 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 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago B | UIC | 74 | 10 |
| Caleb Slusher | South Carolina A | Clemson A | 75 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 76 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | USC | 76 | 10 |
| Krishay Garg | UCLA D | UCSB | 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 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh B | 76 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois B | 76 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 76 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown C | 76 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Orlando | 76 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Alberta 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 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Nebraska | 95 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 95 | -5 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 95 | 10 |
| Cassidy McIntyre | Rose State | Tulsa | 95 | 10 |
| Sophie Lyman | WashU D | William Woods | 98 | -5 |
| Virginia Brooks | Minnesota C | Minnesota B | 98 | -5 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Roanoke | 101 | 10 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU C | 101 | -5 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Brandeis Wilson | 101 | 10 |
| Nolan Dannels | UCSD Vices and Virtues | UCLA C | 102 | 10 |
| Kenneth Moeller | ERAU B | ERAU A | 102 | -5 |
| Graham Price | Kenyon A | MSU B | 102 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Liberty C | 102 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue B | Louisville A | 102 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Sewanee A | 102 | 10 |
| Daniel Abrams | Rutgers C | Vassar A | 103 | 10 |
| Ryan Powell | Brandeis Lloyd George | Tufts A | 103 | -5 |
| Matthew Kohn | Williams | Cornell-UG | 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 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty B | 114 | 10 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Michigan D | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Raymond Jiang | Illinois C | Michigan A | 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 |
| Niki Ilia | BC B | Bowdoin A | 115 | 0 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 115 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | UAB A | 115 | 10 |