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What is apoptosis?


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Living organism committing suicide

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Killing of cell by other cell

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Programmed death of a cell

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Natural death of a cell

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Solution

The correct option is C

Programmed death of a cell


Apoptosis is a process of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. Biochemical events lead to characteristic cell changes (morphology) and death. These changes include blebbing, cell shrinkage, nuclear fragmentation, chromatin condensation, chromosomal DNA fragmentation, and mRNA decay.


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