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Apoptosis Definitions:
Programmed cell death. A physiological suicide mechanism that results in fragmentation of a cell into membrane-bound particles that are eliminated by phagocytosis.
Prescott's Microbiology 9th Edition by Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood, Christopher J. Woolverton
Genetically programmed death of cells that is both a natural process of development and the body?s means of destroying abnormal or infected cells.
Foundations in Microbiology by Kathleen Park Talaro, Arthur Talaro
Apoptosis Notes:
Apoptosis is a natural death of cell that is programmed and this process occurs in organisms that are multicellular. Some of the biological and chemical changes the shape of cell and causes its death. In this process, the cell in fragmented into membrane-bound particles and these particles are then removed by phagocytosis.
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