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How much budget does Disney shell out for these shows? For the live action shows, it looks like enough money to recycle an old set and hire a dozen child actors. But how about the animated shows? Is more or less money shoveled in?

Hi David, recent Biology grad student here:

If the theory that the reason we age is due to epigenetic forgetfulness in our cells is indeed true, we can explain why some species can live indefinitely, like some jellyfish, which revert to an embryonic state and reassign epigenomes to cells. But how do you explain the ability of many species of trees to indefinitely age? I would expect trees to be able to undergo epigenetic memory loss just as we would, while I wouldn't expect epigenetic reprogramming to be occuring in a tree, so why don't they age like we do?