• paysrenttobirds
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    9 months ago

    I don’t know what cancer has to do with a closed environment. More like a failed "ecosystem in a jar*.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 months ago

      The body of an organism is a closed environment. It can be seen as an ecosystem of lots of different cells that live with in this environment. Cancer is just a mutation that allows some cells to replicate and spread through their environment in uncontrolled fashion.