Stem Cell Research

Stem Cells

What Are Stem Cells?

• Master Cells

• Self-Renewal

• Make a variety of cells

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Multiple Choice

What does it mean for Stem Cells to be undifferentiated?

• They are specific types of cells.

• They don't have a specific job yet.

• They don't matter.

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Which of the 3 types of stem cells cannot become ANY type of cell?

• Adult Stem Cells

• Embryonic Stem Cells

• Induced Prluripotent Stem Cells

Embryonic vs. Adult Stem Cells

• Embryonic Stem Cells are pluripotent

• Adult Stem Cells are multipotent

Multiple Choice

Pluripotent means what...

• Cells can give rise to similar types of cells.

• Cells can give rise to any type of cell.

• Cells cannot be changed.

Stem Cell Treatment

• Still being explored

• burns and blood disorders

Multiple Choice

Is Stem Cell Therapy Widely used?

• Yes!

• No!

Open Ended

Explain what stem cells are and why they are unique.

Multiple Choice

Cancer is...

• Uncontrolled cell growth

• Normal cell growth

• A protein

• A cell cycle regulator

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What does "pluripotent" mean?

• able to divide and make all different types of cells
• not able to divide
• can only divide and make one cell type 
• if it divides, it will make a cancerous tumor

Multiple Choice

What does "multipotent" mean?

• able to divide and make one kind of cell
• able to divide and make all different types of cells
• able to divide and make multiple (but not all) types of cells 
• cannot divide

Multiple Choice

What is the difference between embryonic stem cells and adult stem cells?

• Embryonic can differentiate into more cell types than adult
• Adult only turn into blood, while embryonic turn into many things.
• Adult can differentiate into more cell types than embryonic
• Adult grow bigger than embryonic

Multiple Choice

Which of the following cells is UNdifferentiated or UNspecialized?

• cardiac muscle cell
• nerve cell
• liver cell
• stem cell

Multiple Choice

Stem cells are used to __________.

• make clones
• create new species of animals
• make babies
• grow different types of tissues

Multiple Choice

Stem cells are ____________________.

• cells that grow uncontrollably
• undifferentiated and can turn into any type of cell
• those that never go through cell division
• differentiated cells that do one job

Multiple Choice

Pluripotent means what...

• Cells can give rise to similar types of cells.

• Cells can give rise to any type of cell.

• Cells cannot be changed.