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 |
| Swapneel Mandal | UAB A | Huntsville A | 43 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard | MIT A | 43 | 10 |
| Yixi Yang | Yale A | Dartmouth | 43 | 10 |
| Aditya Patnaik | OSU C | Pitt A | 43 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Columbia C | 68 | 10 |
| Ezra Santos | Chicago A | Purdue A | 68 | 10 |
| Liam Rojas | Virginia A | North Carolina B | 68 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech B | North Carolina C | 68 | 10 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | CWRU 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 |
| 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 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 73 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | Claremont Pitzer | 73 | 10 |
| Advai Srinivasan | UCI | UCSD What Hath God Wrought | 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 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 76 | 10 |
| Ben Hellman | Swarthmore A | Lehigh B | 76 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois B | 76 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty A | 76 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 76 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown C | 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 |
| 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 |
| Ethan Buermann | Huntsville B | Alabama B | 82 | 10 |
| Jonathan Ho | Alberta | British Columbia C | 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 |
| Thomas Thatcher | Truman State | WashU C | 101 | -5 |
| Abbott Sherwin | NC State | Roanoke | 101 | 10 |
| Shining Sun | BC A | Brandeis Wilson | 101 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue B | Louisville A | 102 | 10 |
| Harris Beckner | Alabama A | Sewanee A | 102 | 10 |
| Asheton Wilbanks | Clemson B | Liberty C | 102 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Justin Drees | Notre Dame D | Michigan D | 114 | 10 |
| Mason Lambert | James Madison | Liberty B | 114 | 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 |
| Felix Garrett Johnston | Huntsville A | UAB A | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |