Cancer
Doctor who specializes in treating cancer
Oncologist
The changing of the structure of a gene, resulting in a variant form is known as ____________.
mutations
These cells can become any type of cell in the body.
Pluripotent
What process best explains how muscle cells and nerve cells can develop from the same fertilized egg?
differentiation
A diagnostic procedure that involves removing a tissue sample from a patient
biopsy
Cancer is......
Uncontrolled mitosis
Uncontrolled cell growth
How are mutations passed on to offspring?
gametic cells
Stem cells can be obtained from….
umbilical cord blood, some adult tissues, embryos
Type of protein that regulates the cell cycle?
Cyclin
What cancer treatment involves stimulating the body's immune system to attack cancer cells?
Immunotherapy
Which of these is a tumor that is noncancerous and does not spread?
Benign
What is the location in the cell for transcription?
nucleus
What type of cells can give rise to both the placenta and the embryo?
Totipotent
What is the location in the cell for translation?
ribosome
Which type of cancer treatment works best for metastases around the body?
chemotherapy
Apoptosis is important because it.....
destroys the damaged cell or unneeded cells
cancer in which abnormal cells have not spread beyond where they first formed
In situ cancer
Stem cell research is controversial because it involves?
ethical issues
What is the correct order for Central Dogma?
transcription, translation, protein
Critical points in the cell cycle where stop and go signals regulate cell
growth and division
checkpoints, G1 & G2
Cells that encounter other cells normally
stop growing and dividing
the abnormal growth or development of a tissue or organ
dysplasia
Adult stem cells are?
Multipotent
Which type of cell is unspecialized?
stem cells
Secondary malignant growths at a distance from a primary site of cancer
Metastasis