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What would be the most likely effect of a large deletion in the gene that encodes the rna part of telomerase, and how would the function of telomerase be affected?.
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What would be the most likely effect of a large deletion in the gene that encodes the rna part of telomerase, and how would the function of telomerase be affected?.

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Telomerase would lose the function of its internal template and would be unable to correctly associate with telomeres and synthesize new telomeric DNA. :)

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