Apoptosis is

Necrotic death of a cell.

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Programmed death of a cell.

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Shrinking of apoplast and ageing process.

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A process of shedding leaves.

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Solution

The correct option is B Programmed death of a cell.
Apoptosis is the process of programmed cell death (PCD), that may occur in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death.

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	Column I		Column II
A	Apoptosis	1	Self mutilation
B	Non-enzymatic	2	Reconstitution of whole organism from a body piece
C	Epimorphosis	3	Programmed cell death
D	Autotomy	4	Regeneration blastema
E	Morphallaxis	5	Cross linking theory