Introduction
One of the most fundamental features of all living organisms, either unicellular or multicellular, is their ability to reproduce. This relies primarily on the premise that their genetic material, the DNA, must be preserved from one generation to the next. In unicellular organisms, a single cell division leads to two new ones. In the case of multicellular organisms, made up of trillions of cells, the single fact of becoming an adult requires that the single zygotic cell and its descendants undergo an enormous amount of cell divisions to attain the large number of cells that conform the organism. In addition, during the adult life, cell homeostasis is a highly dynamic process that involves both the death of many cells and their continuous replacement with newly formed ones. These new cells are derived from special cell types, the stem cells, which are confined in certain niches within the body. The case of the renewal of blood cells or the epithelial cells in the gut, in...
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Gutierrez, C., Sequeira-Mendes, J., Aragüez, I. (2014). Replication of the Plant Genome. In: Howell, S. (eds) Molecular Biology. The Plant Sciences, vol 2. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7570-5_1
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