This hypothesis research work shows that the induction and the remanent phenomena of the magnetic properties govern the mechanism of the processes of DNA replication and the shortening of the telomere. The solenoid-like formation of each parental DNA strand, which exists at the initial stage of the replication process, enables an electric charge transformation through the strand to produce a magnetic field. The magnetic field, in turn, induces the surrounding medium to form a new (replicated) strand by a remanent magnetization. Through the remanent [residual] magnetization process, the replicated strand possesses a similar information pattern to that of the parental strand. In the same process, the remanent amount of magnetization forms the medium in which it has less of both repetitive and pattern magnetization than that of the parental strand, therefore the replicated strand shows a shortening in the length of its telomeres.
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