I know that it has to do something with primers and the whole anabolic process of replication, but how? What happens that makes DNA shorter with each replication? Is RNA-primers getting cut off with DNA? Explain like i am five
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DNA doesn’t get shorter with every replication.
mRNA that has been ~~translated~~ **transcribed** from your DNA gets shorter with each time it is ~~transcribed~~ **translated** into a protein.
This is by design so cells don’t overrun with mRNA segments. And acts Sorta like a timer. Make gene X so many times or for however long.
There is damaging a telomere shortening that occurs with age but isn’t a regular mechanism occurring at each replication.
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