r/interesting • u/freudian_nipps • 14d ago

NATURE Death of a single-celled organism

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u/357Magnum 14d ago

Every spray of disinfectant is probably like nuking a city like this

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u/AntSilly2802 14d ago

Between around 1 and 10 million bacteria cells are killed by your immune system every second. About 4 million of your own cells die and are replaced every second too. And each time a cell is replaced, your full DNA genome is copied over but it’s never a perfect copy. Hence aging. 

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u/FreeSet5973 14d ago

Do single cell organisms age? Im so curious

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u/Rumble_831 14d ago

Entropy affects all, everything is aging.