• Question: What if no one had cells functioning around their body what would happen?

    Asked by anon-193530 to Jamal, iainstaniland, Heidi, Emma, Carl on 14 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Carl Heron

      Carl Heron answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      Hi 699mndp42, if all cells in a body stop functioning then the organism dies.

      One part of this process is autolysis (auto = self and lysis = breakdown), which is cellular self-digestion. This self-destruction of cells occurs internal cellular enzymes (endo = inside and genous = originating from) are released and work to break down cellular material.

    • Photo: Emma Crawford

      Emma Crawford answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      I think quite simply if you have no functioning or living cells in your body, you would not be alive!

    • Photo: Heidi Gardner

      Heidi Gardner answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      Your body is made of living cells, so I guess if none of them were functioning properly then you’d be dead 🙁

    • Photo: Iain Staniland

      Iain Staniland answered on 14 Nov 2018:

      then we would all be dead!

      thank goodness our cells generally function well!

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