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<p><b>Senescence</b>  or <b>biological aging</b> is the gradual deterioration of <a href="page.php?w=Function_%28biology%29">functional</a> characteristics in living organisms. Whole organism senescence involves an increase in <a href="page.php?w=mortality_rate">death rates</a> or a decrease in <a href="page.php?w=fecundity">fecundity</a> with increasing age, at least in the later part of an organism's <a href="page.php?w=biological_life_cycle">life cycle</a>. However, the effects of senescence can be delayed. The 1934 discovery that <a href="page.php?w=calorie_restriction">calorie restriction</a></p><p>
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