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Why cells won't keep replicating?

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When humans grow they replicate cells so cell divides and dies this goes for almost every organism. Unicellular organisms have asexual reproduction which means there's only a single parent so they replicate exact copies of themselves like bacteria. Humans and animals go through cellular replication. This is when a cell replicates itself into two cells. The limit is set by telomeres. These are extra ( useless) DNA strands formed at the end of a chromosome. A telomere's basic purpose is to help in cellular replication. The telomere strand at the end of each chromosome reduces every time a cell replicates, so when the telomere's run out in a cell, it dies. And typically women have more telomere's than men leading to a longer life.                                                   

Antimatter

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Antimatter the opposite of matter has its own anti counter part antimatter electron called positron which has positive charge and the anti proton having negative charge. In early 1996 physicist found 11 electric signals from anti hydrogen thus showing that in can be produced. Anti hydrogen has one positron orbiting around one anti proton as a normal hydrogen has 1 electron orbiting around the proton in the nucleus. Antimatter also must not come in contact with matter or it start decaying and annihilating itself producing photons such as gamma rays. Anti hydrogen lasts only 15 minutes even when carefully examined by scientists.