Machine Diagram- The End

So after many grueling hours playing with the arrows on my diagram, and after one long night finishing writing my paper, the entire Machine Project finally came to an end. And honestly, even though it was a tedious process, in the end, I actually was very intrigued by my topic, which was the theories on the process of aging. I focused on two theories for my project: the theory of free radicals and oxidative stress, where mitochondrial DNA damage is caused by free radicals containing oxygen, which are produced primarily in the mitochondria, and the theory of telomere shortening, where after successive mitotic replications of the cell, telomeres become critically short in length causing DNA damage. The paper has really sparked an interest in the topic of aging for me, and I think it'd be really interesting to research other theories and continue to read up on it.