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Revision as of 04:57, 31 March 2002 by Little guru (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Adjective: getting old. Showing and bearing the effects of increasing age. In living beings -- it's due to a particular DNA programming that has the sole purpose to "clean" the earth from old genes and assure offspring better living conditions through benign mutations. Lately research on a warm called Caenorhabditis Elegans showed the ability to increase his life span of about 40% thanks to mutations artificially induced through genetic engineering.