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 |
| Yashwanth Bajji | Michigan A | Illinois C | 65 | -5 |
| Joseph Strom | Louisville B | Indiana B | 65 | -5 |
| June Yin | WashU A | Missouri A | 65 | -5 |
| S. A. Shenoy | Georgia Tech B | Bruin A | 66 | -5 |
| Jacob Goodson | OSU B | CWRU A | 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 |
| Zachary Joseph | Columbia A | Columbia C | 68 | 10 |
| Gavin Markoff | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech A | 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 |
| Sarah Dong | Michigan C | Indiana A | 73 | 10 |
| Cade Reinberger | RIT B | Cornell-DII | 73 | 10 |
| Akshay Seetharam | Claremont Scripps | Claremont Pitzer | 73 | 10 |
| Yash Mandavia | Illinois A | Chicago C | 73 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa | Northwestern C | 73 | 10 |
| Bryan Ugaz | Arizona State A | Northwestern A | 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 |
| Kyle Chua | CWRU D | Pitt B | 76 | 10 |
| Wyatt Johnson | CWRU B | MSU A | 76 | 10 |
| Caleb West | Kentucky | Illinois B | 76 | 10 |
| Drew Wetterlind | Iowa State | St. Thomas | 76 | 10 |
| Peter Nelson | Yale B | Brandeis Orlando | 76 | 10 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | USC | 76 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | OSU A | OSU D | 76 | 10 |
| Nikhil Nair | BU | Brown C | 76 | 10 |
| James Ferrabee | McGill D | Alberta B | 76 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford A | Berkeley A | 76 | 10 |
| Jim Fan | North Carolina A | Liberty A | 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 |
| Will Huang | Wisconsin | Nebraska | 95 | 10 |
| Max Mao | British Columbia B | British Columbia A | 95 | 10 |
| Richard Lim | Bowdoin A | BC B | 95 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Graham Price | Kenyon A | MSU B | 102 | 10 |
| Misty Chen | Purdue B | Louisville A | 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 |
| June Miller | UF B | UF E | 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 |
| Will Zhang | Tufts A | Brandeis Lloyd George | 115 | 10 |
| Ryan Gomes | Melbourne A | FSU | 115 | 10 |
| Matthew Andersen | UF A | UCF B | 115 | 10 |
| Jason Beardsley | Pitt C | Kenyon B | 115 | 0 |
| Simone Green | Kenyon B | Pitt C | 115 | 0 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Louisville B | 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |