Unit 3 Challenges in Research
These are adult stem cells are undifferentiated cells that are are also known as:
Somatic Stem Cells
A tumor that is not deemed cancerous and has not invaded nearby tissue.
What is benign?
The prefix that means one-billionth.
What is nano?
What is cancer?
Another name for somatic cells that are undifferentiated is:
What is adult stem cells?
A scientist specializing in biomedical research for cancer may analyze this cellular component when studying the life cycle of a cell.
What are genes?
Chemical properties refer to how the material will...
What is interact with other materials?
Linda was diagnosed with breast cancer that has spread to her bone. Her cancer is:
What is metastatic?
When a scientist implants genetic information from one species into another to create a customized strain of animal for research.
What is a transgenic animal?
The number of people alive at some point after they have been diagnosed with cancer is known as this.
What is the survival rate?
What is a totipotent cell?
A type of biopsy that removes the entire lesion.
What is an excision biopsy?
What is a xenograft?
A chemical or physical agent that interacts with DNA and causes a genetic alteration.
What is a mutagen?
In regenerative medicine, after a biomaterial matrix is developed, the scaffolds must be able to do this?
What is dissolve?
In a population of 100 men, this is the number that will develop cancer at some point during their lifetime.
What is 50?
Regenerative medicine relies heavily on the use of:
What is stem cells?
A mass of cancerous cells that originates in the epithelial layer of skin within the lining of internal organs is known as this.
Particles that can be described as one-billionth.
What are nanoparticles?
DNA segments at the end of chromosomes that play a part in cell age are called:
What is telomeres?
This is the approval process that biomedical researchers seek when they create a transgenic animal.
What is applying for a patent from the US patent and Trademark Office?
The number of people diagnosed with cancer each year per 100,000 people refers to this.
What is the incidence rate?
Any number of viable DNA codings of the same gene, occupying a given position on a chromosome
What is an allele?
Julie's colon cancer has not spread. Abnormal cells that are only found in the tissue of origin are known as this.
What is "in situ"?
The process involved when scientists chart the position of known genes and other markers relative to each other.
What is genetic mapping?
Cancer is the breakdown of this normal body process.
What is cell division?
When particles in sunscreen accumulate in a water source it is known as:
What is bioaccumulation?
The origin of most malignant tumors are this.
What is monoclonal?
Nanobiotechnology research must be conducted in this type of space that keeps out all airborne particles.
What is a clean room?
The nucleus of a cancer cell is _______________ than a normal cell.
What is larger?