Question

What is meant by autophagy ?

Answer 1

consumption of the bodys own tissue as a metabolic process occuring in starvation and certain diseases

OR

destruction of damaged or redundant cellular components occuring in vacuoles within the cell

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Answer 2

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Autophagy is the process of intracellular digestion in which enzymes produced by the cell breakdown molecules and pieces of the cytoplasm from the cell itself.