As previously mentioned linear chromosomes face another issue that is not seen in circular DNA replication.

In contrast, eukaryotes have longer linear chromosomes and initiate replication at multiple origins within these.

Instead, mammalian telomeres seem to shrink with age, a result of the way the linear chromosomes are duplicated whenever a cell divides.

There were also issues with contamination from the yeast's own linear chromosomes, which the authors found a clever solution for.

However, the presence of both a single circular chromosome and single linear chromosome is unique to a group in this genus.

It consists 1000 copies of 20,000 different tiny, acentric linear chromosomes.

Telomerase is a reverse transcriptase that lengthens the ends of linear chromosomes.

Telomere: Used to maintain chromosomal integrity by capping off the ends of the linear chromosomes.

Telomeres are the specialized structures that form the termini of linear eukaryotic chromosomes.

These complex computer programs are encoded in simpler linear chromosomes of fixed length, which are afterwards expressed as expression trees.