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Cancer Flashcards

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Angiogenesis

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The of blood vessels into cancerous tissues

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Anchorage dependence

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The ability of cells to remain connected to the tissue they are found in

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Apoptosis

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The death of a cell

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Asexual

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IDK

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A-T

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Nitrogen bases Adenine and Thymine

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Autosomes

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22 pairs of nonsex chromosomes

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Benign

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Tumors that stay within the same tissue

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Biopsies

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IDK

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Cancer

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Disorder in body which cells of the body divide at a normally high rate

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Carcinogens

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Enviormental substances that can cause cancer

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Centromere

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Holds two sister chromatids together

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Checkpoints

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G1 G3 and metaphase

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Chemotherapy

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Targeted radiation targeting fast dividing cells

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Chromatids

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Copies of chromosomes made during replication

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Chromatin

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Not sex organisms

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Chromosomes

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Name for genetic material when the cell is not carrying out mitosis

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Cytokinesis

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Division of the cytoplasm of a cell

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Contact inhibition

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Prevents cells from dividing when doing so would cause them to pile up on each other

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Cross over

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Occurs during prophase. Exchanges portions of chromosomes from one member of a homologous pair to another

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Diploid

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Two sets of chromosomes

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G1

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Cell growth

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G2

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Cell growth and prep for division

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Gametes

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Specialized cells with only half the number of chromosomes from the parent cell

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G-C

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Guanine and Cytosine

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Gene linkage

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Two genes on the came chromosomes

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Haploid

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When only one member of each cell is present

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Genes

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Instructions carried by DNA

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DNA replication

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Unzipping the molecule in half and then copying both sides to make 2 equal double Helixs

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Karyotype

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Highly magnified photo of chromosomes arranged in pairs

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Malignant

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Metastasis

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Break away and start new cancers at distant locations

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Mitosis

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Cell division that occurs in somatic cells and makes exact genetic copies of the parent cell

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Biopsy

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Removed of cells tissue or fluid that will be analyzed and determined if cancerous

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Monosomy

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The absence of a chromosome of a homologous pair

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Oncogenes

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Cancerous cells

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Proto oncogenes

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Genes that encode the proteins regulating the cell cycle

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Nucleotides

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Basic building blocks of NUCLEIC acids

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S

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DNA is copied

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Sex cells

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X and Y chromosomes

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Multiple hit model

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Process of cancer development

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Telomerase

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Enzyme that prevents the degradation of chromosomes

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Telophase

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Nuclear envelopes reform and chromatin to chromosomes

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Trisomy

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The presence of an extra chromosome

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Tumor

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Odd cell growth

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Tumor suppressor

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Genes that produce proteins that stop cell division of conditions are not favorable

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Factors that increase cancer risk

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Tobacco use
Bad diet
Lack of exercise
Obesity
Access alcohol consumption 
Increasing age
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Mitosis

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Asexual division that produces daughter nuclei that is an exact copy of the parent nuclei

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Prophase

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Chromosomes to chromatin
Micro tubules form and grow
Nuclear membrane disappears
Centrioles move to poles

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Metaphase

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Chromatin lines up in the middle

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Anaphase

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Centromere splits and pull chromatin to poles

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Telophase

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Nuclear membrane reforms

Chromatin to chromosomes

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