[Regulation of the destructive processes occurring in the body in senescence and in oncogenesis: a hypothesis].
A hypothesis has been suggested, according to which destruction of the body that occurs during senescence and carcinogenesis is likely to be regulated by the atavistic mechanism of apical dominance described by plant physiologists. This mechanism is inherited from the first on Earth multicellular animals that behaved the mode of life attached to benthos and to underwater objects and probably were modular sessile invertebrates.
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D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics*; D000818:Animals; D063646:Carcinogenesis / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans