According to the free radical theory of aging (FRTA),
organisms age because of accumulated free radical damage to cells and DNA.
One theory holds that
organisms age because of built - up genetic mutations that aren't weeded out by natural selection — a disease, say, that hits after your reproductive prime.
Not exact matches
«The orchestration of gene expression no longer seemed coordinated as the
organism aged and the results were confusing
because genes related to the same function were going up and down at the same time,» says Petrascheck.
Because the PP4 DNA of worms is over 90 % identical with that of humans, it is possible that the protein plays a similar role in all animals as a universal regulator of meiosis, particularly as an
organism ages.
Evolution theory plays a critical role in the why issue
because it attempts to explain why each living
organism has its particular design and therefore why different species display different
aging characteristics and different life spa...
Those islands are there
because as the volcanic corals have subsided, the sea level has gone up (since the last ice
age), and the growth of coral
organisms has kept up.