[Origin of similarities in mechanisms of senescence and cancer].
A hypothesis about the cause of similarities of changes developing in an organism due to senescence and cancer is presented. The similarity is explained by the common origin of mechanisms of these pathological processes in the evolution. The evolutionary predecessors of destructive processes observed in an organism due to senescence and cancer were the destructions accompanying asexual reproduction in the distant ancestry.
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D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000235:genetics*; D012100:Reproduction, Asexual