291 | Venki Ramakrishnan on the Biology of Death and Aging

2392.956 - 2423.768 Venki Ramakrishnan

Then when it divides, one half, one daughter cell inherits the new part. The other daughter cell inherits the old part. And if you keep repeating this by very carefully producing these E. coli in thin tubes so you can keep track of it, it turns out that the old E. coli eventually dies. So it's pretty amazing. So I would say almost everything dies, even even unicellular organisms.