cell death
When I received the paper on cell death, or apoptosis, I realized I did not have any knowledge on this subject and was very interested to learn about it. ... It sort of made me think of cell suicide which primarily what it is. I learned that cell death depends on the cell. ... Right now scientists believe that cell death only occurs in animals, but they think that it could be possible to occur in bacteria, fungi and plants. Cell death is common among plants, especially among the higher plants. ... In this case death functions as a “built-in error-correcting mechanism”. ... Cell division forms the clay, whereas cell death sculpts the clay into the form. ... The death of the cells determines if an organism will be formed or not. In some cases cell death is needed to make it work, and in other cases cell death makes defects in the product. An example of cell death being a good thing is that it gets rid of dangerous cells that could be harmful to the rest of the organism.