Imagine a knitted sweater, it gets some holes poked in it but it’s still usable as a sweater, but those holes create loose ends and pulling on a loose end will slowly unravel the whole sweater until it falls apart.
Now imagine your dna is the sweater, the radiation damages it creating loose ends. Eventually the damage from the radiation will unravel your dna like a knitted sweater until you literally fall apart. Your dna is also very very long so sometimes depending on the severity of the damage it can take a while for you to unravel.
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