Posted: May 22nd, 2023

Aging is therefore a continuous deleterious process

Aging is therefore a continuous deleterious process, which leads to the death of organisms. It occurs in Eukaryotic organisms when they undergo asymmetric cell division. This is because the daughter cells from the parent cell have different constituents. When this is the case, the parent cells cannot continue surviving. Organisms that undergo asymmetrical cell division produce identical Daugherty cells that are fully compact. These daughter cells are immortal and can carry on the process of reproduction by dividing indefinitely. A bacterium is one of the organisms that undergo asymmetric division of cells hence does not undergo aging. This hypothesis has however come under criticism from several scholars. They have done empirical studies to prove that bacteria undergo aging (Stewart et al. 2005).