
To review:
Whether age is a normal development or it is just a random degeneration.
Introduction:
Ageing is a process of different changes in organism showing physical, psychological, and social changes. In biology, aging is the declining ability of stem cells and progenitor cells to restore damaged or nonfunctioning tissues.

Explanation of Solution
Aging is a time-related degeneration of the physiological functions of the body necessary for the survival and fertility. Generally, body
During aging, muscle progenitor (satellite) cell activity decreases due to loss of Notch signaling, resulting in a significant decrease of muscle activity. An age-dependent decline in liver progenitor cell division impairs liver regeneration due to decline in transcription factor cEPBα. Another biological symptom appears graying of mammalian hair due to apoptosis of melanocyte stem cells in the hair bulge niche.
Although, aging is a part of normal development process occurs in every organism but eventually it is a degeneration of normal physiological functions of the body showing age-related symptoms.
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