Today we reviewed our homework's reading on why everyone has to die and human aging. It talks about how aging was programmed into us and how we are all destined to die. Pretty much what happens is that everytime a cell reproduces, it loses a bit of DNA, however, in order from preventing the reproduction from doing damage to your body, your DNA have telomers which is pretty much blank data that is used up during reproduction and once the telomers on DNA run out, your body starts getting damaged. The reason why we have this process is an attempt to get fight back against cancer. When a cell becomes cancerous, there is a limit to its ability to reproduce which prevents the cell from growing outrageously. In this way, cancer cells will die out after the telomers are used up. However, cancer cells have a way around that but essentially, this process is a way to prevent cells from easily taking over and reproducing in your body. Also, another reason why we have aging is because dying at an old age does not prevent us from reproducing and thus keeps our species surviving. As long as we reproduce, our bodies don't care what happens to us after we reproduce.
THANK YOU SO MUCH BODY.
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