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Autophagy

Autophagy is a term in biology for a condition in which the body of a living organism consumes its own tissues as a metabolic process. It is induced either by starvation or disease. The destruction of damaged or redundant components occurring within vacuoles inside a cell of an organism is also called autophagy.

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