lecture 15

Question 1

cancer

Answer 1

abnormal cell growth in the body

Question 2

matastasize

Answer 2

cancer spreads

Question 3

cancer treatment

Answer 3

surgery radiation or chemotherapy

Question 4

hpv vaccine and hep b vaccine

Answer 4

has helped with preventing cancer

Question 5

the war on cancer

Answer 5

a legislation passed to address cancer. formed national care act.

Question 6

characteristics of cancer

Answer 6

evading growth suppressors
sustains signaling that continues its growth
enables replicative immortality

Question 7

cancer promoting mutations

Answer 7

activation of protooncogenes and deactivation of tumor supressor genes

Question 8

oncogene

Answer 8

growth inducing gene

Question 9

tumor suppressor genes

Answer 9

push cells to apoptosis

stops cell cycle for dna repair

Question 10

s phase

Answer 10

dna is replicated during the s synthetic phase

Question 11

g1 and g2

Answer 11

gap phases

Question 12

m phase

Answer 12

mitosis where cell divides

Question 13

t/f-most cells spend most of their time in the G0 phase

Answer 13

true the quiescent cell

Question 14

germline mutation

Answer 14

are due to hereditary syndromes

Question 15

somatic mutations

Answer 15

are due to environmental factors that result later in life

Question 16

mutagen

Answer 16

induces changes in the DNA sequence of somatic cells

Question 17

carcinogen

Answer 17

changes dna and causes cancer

Question 18

tetratogen

Answer 18

changes in dna sequence that impact embryonic development

Question 19

tcga

Answer 19

an atlas to study the moelcular and genomic basis of cancer