ocr: and active for a very long time, then diec quickly including some fish, that keep growing for from an accident or a fatal disease. as long as they live. That suggests that their "What we've found." says Whit Gibbons, a cells don't have the same genetic constraints biologist at the University of Georgia's Savan- that scem programmed into the cells of many nah River Ecology Laboratory, "is that no shorter lived animals and supports the idea matter how long they live, turtles show no that turtle life span is indeed a function of a indications of senility or senescence. longer running program. How ...