Cell Death Occurs In Same Way In Plants And Animals

Tuesday, October 13, 2009 - 12:21 in Biology & Nature

Research has previously assumed that animals and plants developed different genetic programs for cell death. Now scientists have shown that parts of the genetic programs that determine programmed cell death in plants and animals are actually evolutionarily related and moreover function in a similar way.

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