Cell Cycle Control and Cancer

What is the longest stage of the cell cycle called?

• Cytokinesis

• Mitosis

• Interphase

• S phase

Why must the cells of an organism divide?

• growth

• repair of damaged cells

• replacement of dying cells

• all of the above

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What is cancer?

• A group of diseases characterized by no cell growth

• A group of diseases caused by the failure of chromosomes to separate

• A group of diseases characterized by uncontrolled cell division

• A group of diseases caused by excessive replication of chromosomes

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__________________ is a process of identifying defective cells and causing them to self-destruct.

• Mitosis

• Apoptosis

• Interphase

• Metaphase

What do the blue cells represent? (HINT: abnormal & excessive growth)

• Cancer cells

• Normal cells

• B cells

• Liver cells

The stages of interphase are

• G₁, S, and G₂
• S₁, G, and S₂
• G, S, and M
• G₁, S, G₂, and M

The 3 MAIN causes of cancer are

• diet, hereditary, and bacteria

• temperature, diet, and mutations

• mutations, hereditary, and carcinogens

describes a mass of cells that cause little damage to organism but crowds surrounding cells (non-cancerous tumor)

• benign

• malignant

Cancer causing agent

• apoptosis

• contact inhibition

• differentiation

• carcinogen

Collection of cancer cells

• tumor

• metastasize

• interleukin

• melanin

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