Genetics
What is DNA?
Cancer happens when cells grow and divide out of ___.
What is the tool scientists use to see tiny cells?
What is a microscope?
The body system that fights infections.
What is the immune system?
The “control center” of the cell.
Where do you find the DNA?
What is a nucleus?
What is the name of the process of normal cell division?
What is mitosis?
The clear glass piece that holds a sample under a microscope.
What is a slide?
A doctor who studies diseases by looking at cells under a microscope.
What is a pathologist?
The jelly-like material inside a cell.
What is a cytoplasm?
What is the basic unit that is passed on to children from parents?
What is a gene?
A lump of abnormal cells are called a ____.
What is a tumor?
A step-by-step method scientists follow to test ideas.
What is the scientific method?
A shot that helps protect you from disease.
What is a vaccine?
The outer layer that controls what enters and leaves the cell.
What is a cell membrane?
Who is the father of Genetics? (Hint: Pea Plant Experiment)
When cancer spreads to other parts of the body.
What is metastasis?
The variable that a scientist changes in an experiment.
Treatment that uses high energy rays to kill cancer cells.
What is radiation therapy?
This is the process where one cell divides to make two new cells.
What is cell division?
A change in DNA that can sometimes cause disease or cancer.
What is a mutation?
This type of treatment uses special drugs that can kill fast growing cancer cells.
What is chemotherapy?
A lab technique that copies DNA many times.
What is PCR? (polymerase chain reaction)
This type of doctor specializes in treating people with cancer.
What is an oncologist?
Cells that can become many different types of cells.
What are stem cells?