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What is a apoptosis?

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A process that tears a cell apart!

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What is apoptosis?
a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself
How do you pronounce apoptosis?
Ay-paw-TOE-sis ...According to The Journal of the American Cancer Institute that is the pronunciation intended by the investigators who coined the term Apoptosis:...
What is an event of apoptosis?
apoptosis is a programmed cell death. The cell death occurs by shrinking, blebbing of cell membrane ,chromatin condensation, nuclear condensation and form small apoptotic bodies and then the cell...
The main proteases involved in apoptosis are?
caspases
What happens during apoptosis?
cell suicide. The cell destroys it self with lysosomes.