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What does senescence mean?

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Noun
  1. (biology) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age.
  2. (cell biology) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
  3. (gerontology) Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
  4. (botany) Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit.
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There is now enzymological and cell biological evidence that a metabolic sequence is activated during senescence.
A pretreatment of cold-induction temperatures had little effect on the course of tissue senescence under these conditions.
Evolutionary senescence theory argues that organisms senesce because the power of natural selection decreases with age.
In many cases the plant exhibits symptoms similar to those seen during leaf senescence before cell death occurs.
Music was for kids, and all the old geniuses that I had revered had either become defunct, died or fallen into senescence.
Oxidative processes during senescence involve an increase in enzyme activities generating oxygen radicals and superoxide ions.

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