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I'm not sure what strings you're referring to here. There are hadronic strings and superstrings.

Hadronic strings are a model to represent bound states of quarks joined by gluons (making up the body of the string). It takes at least two quarks to make a hadronic string.

Or --most likely-- you mean superstring theory (really tiny strings of Planck size). Then every elementary particle (electrons, quarks, photons...) would be a string. As a quark is, as far as we know, elementary (point-like, no internal structure), every quark would be a string within the framework we call superstring theory.

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Superstring theory purports to generalise the standard model. In the SM neutrons and protons, as well as mesons, are not elementary, but aggregates of quarks and gluons. So strings would correspond to quarks, gauge bosons (photons, W, Z and the graviton). 

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In Superstring theory, all fundamental fermions  ( particles ) and bosons ( forces ) are the result of differing vibrational frequencies of even more fundamental, Planck scale, supersymmetric 'strings'.

A composite particle, such as a neutron, would be the result of the vibrational interactions of the constituent quark/gluon strings.

A more generalized version, M Theory, and 'branes', considers the implications of some strings being a 'closed loop' and some 'open ended'.

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