Identify true statements regarding telomerase. Telomerase has reverse transcriptase activity. Telomerase contains an RNA component that serves as a template for a DNA sequence. After the DNA strand is lengthened, telomerase serves as a template for the synthesis of the complementary DNA strand. Telomerase extends a DNA strand by adding a repeating sequence of six nucleotides to the
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end. In humans, telomerase adds the six-nucleotide sequence
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-ATACTC-3'.