The telomeres of eukaryotic chromosomes consist of short sequences of

Options

A. thymine rich repeats
B. cytosine rich repeats
C. adenine rich repeats
D. guanine rich repeats

Answer

D

Explanation

Telomeres have been shown to have unique structures that include short nucleotide sequensec present as tandemly repeated units . In eukaryotes the telomeres terminate with a single- eukaryotes the telomeres terminate with a single- stranded DNA [12-16 nucleotides long) rich in guanine.