Solved cryptogram
No cell in your body was assembled from parts. Each one is a copy made by an older cell.
Biology Facts, sourced to NCBI Bookshelf: The Cell.
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What it means
A cell divides into two, and that is the only way any of them arrive. Your body replaces billions of them a day, chiefly in the gut lining, the skin and the blood, and every replacement is a division of a cell already present. Follow the chain backward from any cell you own and it runs to a single fertilized egg, and past that without a break into deep time. Cancer is that same process with the stopping signal ignored.
The claim comes from NCBI Bookshelf: The Cell.
- SourceNCBI Bookshelf: The Cell
- CollectionBiology Facts
- Difficultymedium
- Length68 letters, 19 of them different
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