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How Do We Age?

1. What is a telemere?
a. What normally happens to telemeres when cells divide?
b. Telomerase; what is it and how does it change the life span of cells?
c. What are possible uses for the telomerase findings reported on Science Friday?
d. Briefly describe: Waste Accumulation Theory (lipofuscin) and Free Radical Theory
e. Which theory leads people take supplemental Vitamin E and Vitamin C? Explain.
2. What are memory suppresser genes?
3. What is different about short-term and long-term memory and how they are     formed?
4. What are the implications of these studies?

 

 

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