As a part of the calcium carbonate system it is actually a building block of shells and coral reefs, as a player in the metabolic system it can
affect organismal health.
It has been postulated that aging is the consequence of an accelerated accumulation of somatic DNA mutations and that subsequent errors in the primary structure of proteins ultimately reach levels sufficient to
affect organismal functions.
Not exact matches
Until now, lincRNAs have been studied primarily in cell lines rather than at the
organismal level, which has precluded research into how lincRNAs
affect growth and development.