Cancer Cells vs. Normal Cells
These types of cells divide rapidly and uncontrollably.
What are cancer cells?
This is the part of the cell cycle when the cell divides.
What is Mitosis?
The number of cells that are produced when a cell divides by Mitosis.
What is 2?
This is the meaning of DNA replication.
What is copying the DNA?
This is a special type of transcription factor that is frequently mutated in cancer patients.
What is p53?
When DNA is damaged, normal cells try to do this.
DNA Replication occurs during this part of the Cell Cycle.
What is the S phase of Interphase?
The part of Meiosis when the chromosomes are lined up in homologous pairs in the middle of the cell.
What is Metaphase I
A cell replicates its DNA before it does this process.
What is cell division or Mitosis?
The binding domain of the p53 protein allows it to do this.
What is bind/attach to DNA at a particular location.
This is the reason why cancer cells don't function properly.
What is DNA mutations?
This is the longest part of the Cell Cycle.
What is Interphase?
In a cell that has 8 chromosomes, this is the amount of DNA each daughter cell will have after Mitosis.
What is 8?
This is the first step of DNA replication.
What is the DNA strands opens up?
This is the special function of p53.
What is to stop the cell cycle (by highlighting a region of DNA that, when transcribed and translated, produces a protein that halts the cell cycle)?
Normal cells go through this process when their damaged DNA is unable to be repaired.
What is apoptosis?
This is the purpose of the checkpoints.
What is to pause the cell cycle and check for/repair errors in the DNA?
This is the reason why cells divide by Mitosis.
What is for growth, repairing damaged tissue, and replacing dead cells?
Cytosine (C) goes with this base during DNA replication.
What is guanine (G)?
This is the purpose of transcription factors.
What is to help an enzyme know where to start to transcribe the DNA?
Cancer cells that leave the tumor site and spread to other parts of the body are said to do this process.
What is metastasis?
"Checkpoints" are actually this type of molecule.
What are proteins?
This is the fancy name for the type of cell produced by Meiosis.
What is gametes (reproductive cells)?
ACTGGTAGGC
TGACCAACCG
This is a type of mutation.
What is a substitution mutation?
The sequence of DNA where the transcription factor binds.
What is the recognition sequence?