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Originally posted by TheKak
You grow old and die as a safety device agaisnt cell mutation. A copy of a copy of a copy of a copy tends to not be as good as the first one, so eventually they die (I forget what the piece is called, its at the end of your DNA strings if I remember correctly, though I may be way off on this one it has been a while (starts with a T)).
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Telomeres. And the ironic thing is that there's a chemical (or enzyme maybe) that keeps telomeres from degrading. But that chemical promotes cancer. Ya can't win...
Sorry to get slightly off topic.