Questions about telomeres: terminology and discovery

[student007]

Hi, I'm doing a telomere assignment for biology, and i have a few questions.

1) are they called "telomers" or "telomeres"?
2) when and by whom were they discovered? (i've looked everywhere!)

Thank, you. and i must say, those things are fascinating!

 

[JamesU]

K. This is what I've found, and they're telomeres.

Almost 15 years ago, biologist Elizabeth Blackburn discovered that telomeres have a special DNA sequence, a pattern of bases that repeats over and over again. In humans, for example, the telomere repeat is -AGGGTT-, repeated perhaps 1,000 times on many chromosomes.

I don't know if this is what you're looking for...

 

[student007]

thanx...not very specific (i.e. year, place) but better than i can do :)

 

[Moonbear]

The existence of telomeres has been known for a long time, only recently has there begun to be some theorizing about what their function is. I have no idea when or by whom they were first discovered though. Sorry.

 

[Monique]

You can look it up in www.pubmed.com


Telomeres were first described in 1968 by Berendes HD and Meyer GF in Drosophila http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=5709395

 

[Foam]

Hi, I'm doing a telomere assignment for biology, and i have a few questions.

write something like this link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere

your teacher will give you A+, remmeber to include the amino acid chains of each species--the telomeric repeats i means

 

[student007]

Question...

I just finished a report on telomeres (just the basic stuff). Would anyone be willing to read it over and give some feedback? Thanx A LOT!

P.S. I'm asking this only because I don't know what the rules on this forum are with respect to this. I don't want someone to read and rewrite it...i just want some feedback