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Describe how apoptosis can be a survival mechanism for an organism whose cells have damaged DNA
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Apoptosis is programmed cell death. When a cells DNA is damaged (or it is not attached to a layer of cells) the cell self destructs. This prevents cancerous cells from growing.
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