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What is the Hayflick limit?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Menon suggests that because a researcher has power and control over how the study participants' narrative will be interpreted and told to the greater audience, there should be some element of _____ to contextualize the participants' experiences.
 
  A. subjectivity
  B. replication
  C. empiricism
  D. positivism



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Answer to Question 1

According to Hayflick, each species has a genetically programmed time limit, because at a certain point in time, cells lose their ability to replicate. This time limit, known as the Hayflick limit, is what accounts for the aging process and life expectancy.

Answer to Question 2

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