Bioinfo Final Jeopardy

Cancer

100

Define Angiogenesis

Angiogenesis --> formation of new blood vessels

200

What is the difference between benign and malignant?

Benign tumor cells don't move from their site of origin. Malignant tumor cells invade other tissue.

300

This protein class helps control the cell cycle by signaling cells to proceed past checkpoints like G1 and G2.

Cyclins

400

What is the role of p53? Is it an oncogene or tumor suppressor? What is its nickname?

p53 is a tumor suppressor that halts the cell cycle when DNA damage occurs, allowing time for repair or apoptosis if repair isn't possible. Its nickname is the "guardian of the genome".

500

A patient has a BRCA1 mutation. Is BRCA1 a tumor suppressor or oncogene? How does this relate to breast cancer risk?

BRCA1 is a gene that produces a protein involved in repairing damaged DNA and is also known as a tumor suppressor gene. 

A mutation increases the chance of cancer because damaged DNA builds up.

Python Coding

100

What is the result of this code:

list1 = [der, noa, fah]

list2 = [eva, sne, tim]

list1.append(list2)

print(list1)

[der, noa, fah, [eva,sne,tim]]

200

Write code for this problem statement:

I have a list of 50 numbers. I want to take out only the numbers that are divisible by 3. Then I want to add 2 to each of those numbers. 

new_list = []

for num in list:

if num % 3 == 0:

new_list.append(num+2)

300

Write this for loop as a list comprehension.

new_list = []

old_list = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]

for num in old_list:

if num % 2 == 0:

new_list.append(num)

Hint: List comprehension Format:

[item for item in list if condition]

new_list = [num for num in old_list if num % 2 == 0]