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But your body constantly repairs, too, right? So maybe it's able to repair a few errors, but gets quickly overwhelmed during a CT scan?
by jeffdavis 13y ago
But your body constantly repairs, too, right? So maybe it's able to repair a few errors, but gets quickly overwhelmed during a CT scan?
- aptwebapps 13y agoYour body repairs tissue tears and damaged cells as well as fighting off infections and things but I don't believe it is well-equipped to deal with damaged genes. I could be totally wrong, though.
- chockablock 13y agoDNA repair is happening all the time -- this is a major benefit of having double-stranded DNA. Wikipedia offers DNA damage rates of 1e3 - 1e6 DNA damage events per cell, per day ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_repair ). Almost all of these get repaired.
- sitkack 13y agoOr they get terminated. We are all running on Erlang.