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What is meant by Apoptosis?(a) Accidental Cell Death(b) Programmed Cell death(c) Accidental Cell division(d) Programmed Cell divisionThe question was posed to me by my college professor while I was bunking the class.Question is taken from Human Health and Disease topic in division Human Health and Disease of Biology – Class 12

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The CORRECT CHOICE is (b) Programmed Cell death

The explanation is: APOPTOSIS has been derived from an Ancient Greek word meaning “falling off”. In biology, Apoptosis REFERS to a form of programmed cell death that occurs in multicellular organisms. It is used by the immune system to get rid of the virus-infected CELLS.



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