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Перевод: senescence

[существительное]
старение
[существительное]

Тезаурус:

1. At one time it was supposed that the ammonoids were suffering from "racial senescence" at that time and that the uncoiling represented a kind of genetic exhaustion.
2. If the "inter-ALU" DNA sequences represent genes for growth modifying proteins (as in retroviruses), then we have in our bodies terrorist elements, which may be part of a normal regulatory system until they become too abundant and cause senescence and death.
3. This primary process of ageing, known as senescence, is simply the biological changes which begin as growth and development end.
4. In this way, groups can be used to open up many topics for discussion, which can then be used to reverse some of the sociological and psychological factors which contribute to senescence in our society.
5. The explanation lies in something less mysterious than "racial senescence".
6. Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest, studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity.
7. Now if there are changes, such as non-replacing teeth and non-dividing nerve cells, which make young animals more efficient, at the cost of condemning old animals to senescence, these changes will be favoured by natural selection, if only because most animals die of accidents anyway before they are old.
8. The time of germination, flowering, fruiting, or leaf-fall and general senescence, may be determined by day length - for day length, after all, is a much more reliable indicator of the time of year than temperature is, for example.
9. First, even if there were no intrinsic process of senescence, animals would die of accidents, and evolution would proceed.
10. This is rather a trivial example: if teeth were the only problem, senescence could be cured by false teeth.
11. In fact, it is not hard to think of explanations for senescence in terms of individual advantage.
12. The blind sites do, however, provide entry points for secondary fungi which may speed senescence and spoil grain quality.
13. In early 1837, he had supported the senescence analogy between sexual and asexual generation by interpreting all generation as division, whether artificial or natural, complete or incomplete, simultaneous or successive.