cancer Flashcards
describe benign tumours
-grow slower than malignant tumours
-non cancerous and dont spread to tother tissues as the tumour
-cells often remain differentiated
-cell nucleus has a normal appearance
describe malignant tumours
-grow faster than benign tumours
-cancerous and cells break off and spread to other parts of the body
-cells becomes undifferentiated and non specialised
-cell nucleus is larger and darker
mal= bad
totipotent cells
-early embryos
-embryonic development
-differentiate into any cell
multipotent
mature animals
-few cells
-in bone marrow
-bloood stem cell
-produce any type of blood cell/ red or white
unipotent cell
mature mammals
-only one cells
-musclce
-neurone
-epithelial
-other tissues
pluripotent cell
-present in embryos
-develop from totipotenent
-into almost any cell
its cell
type of pluripotent cell produced from unipotent cell
-using tf