Vocab
What is another name for G1/G2/ and S?
Interphase
An external regulatory protein that stimulates cell division
Growth factor
A cell that can produce other cells.
Stem Cell
Using a chemical to kill cancer
chemotherapy
General term for the enzymes controlling the cell cycle?
Cyclins
Type of stem cell that can turn into all cells
Totipotent
What phase of the cell cycle does DNA get copied?
S
Uncontrolled cell growth
cancer
AKA: adult stem cells
Multipotent
Cell produced when an egg and sperm combine
zygote
Programmed death of a cell
Apoptosis
AKA: embryonic stem cells
pluripotent
Where do most stem cells for research come from
Embryos
Term for the spreading of cancer to other parts of the body
Metastasis
At what # of cells are human cells still totipotent, or capable of creating an individual human
8