Cell Communication
Type of cell communication that utilizes cell surface molecules.
What is direct contact?
The scientific term used for a signaling molecule.
What is a ligand?
The longest phase of the cell cycle.
What is interphase?
A difference between normal cells and cancerous cells
What is ...?
Cancer cells move through the cell cycle at a faster rate.
Cancer cells don't follow checkpoints.
Cancer cells lose contact inhibition and anchorage dependence.
Etc.
The number of chromosomes a human diploid cell has.
What is 46?
The body system used by endocrine signaling to transport signaling molecules.
What is the circulatory/cardiovascular system?
The energy molecule used by G protein coupled receptors.
What is GTP?
Chromosomes are lined up at the equatorial plate.
What is metaphase?
Programmed cell death.
What is apoptosis?
The type of cancer that Henrietta Lacks had.
What is cervical?
Cancer cells will release and use their own growth hormones.
What is autocrine signaling?
The conversion of an extracellular signal to an intracellular signal.
What is transduction?
The phase responsible for cytoplasm division.
What is cytokinesis?
When cells separate from the tumor and spread elsewhere in the body
What is metastasis?
The protein that spindle fibers connect to in order to separate sister chromatids.
What are kinetochores?
The body system that uses synaptic signaling.
What is the nervous system?
The role of cAMP in a signal transduction pathway.
What is a secondary messenger?
The organelles that separate DNA during mitosis.
What are centrosomes?
A nondividing state.
What is G0?
The non-condensed form of DNA.
What is chromatin?
The cell junctions found in animal cells and in plant cells. (Need both)
What are gap junctions (animals) and plasmodesmata (plants)?
The type of hormones that can bind to an intracellular receptor.
What are steroid/lipid based hormones?
The number of chromosomes doubles during this stage of the cell cycle.
What is anaphase?
Proteins that help regulate the progression of the cell cycle.
What are cyclins/ cyclin dependent kinases?
The protein that DNA wraps around in order to form nucleosomes.
What are histones?