Answer to Question #178785 in Genetics for Kaitlyn Rockey

Question

Suppose that your arm, hand and foot was made up of only one cell. What would happen if the cell stopped working or died?

Answer 1

Disruptions of this process can lead to various diseases such as cancer or neurological disorders such as Parkinson's. The cell on the body will be sloughed off and discarded. It will be scavenged by phagocytes – white blood cells that ingest another cell.

The energy from the dead cell is partly recycled to make other white cells.