User:Jkane/Apoptosis Evolution

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How did apoptosis evolve? The extreme of unselfish evolutionary behavior, how did it evolve?

Questions

  1. Do single-celled organisms undergo apoptosis?
  2. What genes / pathways are involved in apoptosis?
  3. In multicellular organisms, what elements of apoptosis are universally conserved, if any?