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Most cells, yes. All? No. Most neurons in your brain will have to last your lifetime, and IIRC some of your stem cells will have to last with the same dna stran
by ramraj07 7y ago
Most cells, yes. All? No. Most neurons in your brain will have to last your lifetime, and IIRC some of your stem cells will have to last with the same dna strands for most of your lifetime.
However if some bases in the DNA molecule get chemically degraded then error correction mechanisms should kick in and (mostly) correct them.
- viklove 7y agoIf your cells aren't replicating... what do they need DNA for?
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoYour DNA is read during the life of the cell for maintaining cell function, e.g, creating proteins.
- ramraj07 7y agoThe cells DNA is still the source of all information for it's functioning, when a cell has to make new protein it reads the sequence from the DNA first.