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==Cell Death== | ==Cell Death== | ||
Cell death currently remains a mystery. However, scientists have proposed two possible reasons for programmed cell death: | |||
* | *The cells may no longer be needed. When a baby is in his mother’s womb, his fingers or toes are connected to each other by connective tissue. While he is growing up, the connective tissue disappears through cell death (apoptosis). If the connective tissue does were not killed by apoptosis, the baby’s fingers would remain attached as with a duck’s feet. | ||
* | *Apoptosis may be a mechanism for preventing cancer. When the cells live longer, they have a genetic problem or damage. Finally the damage leads the cells to become the cancer. Without apoptosis, there is the possibility that originally normal cells become cancer. (Purves, Sadava, Orians, Heller, p208) | ||
Research in the area of cell death indicates that apoptosis is a very important process in our body. | |||
==Process== | ==Process== | ||
