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Define senescence. Discuss one hypothesis that attempts to explain senescence.
 
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Approximately how many children die yearly due to hunger?
 
  a. 5 million
  b. 1 billion
 c. 2 million
  d. 6 million


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Reply #1 on: Aug 11, 2018
Answer to Question 1

It is a decline in physiological functioning usually associated with aging. The various theories that
can be discussed are pleiotropic theory, mitochondrial theory, and telomere hypothesis.

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