context: Programmed cell death is coordinated cell death that is unnecessary within a multicellular organism. [1] [2] [3] Unlike necrosis, a type of cell death that results from acute tissue damage that triggers an immune response, but programmed cell death occurs within an orderly process of the life cycle (organism). Programmed cell death benefits the primary functions of an organism during the growing tissues of plants and animals.
question: What is programmed cell death?
answers.text: coordinated cell death that is unnecessary within a multicellular organism