Cancer: Clues from Cell Biology CfU s21

Tissue-typing of cancer cells reveals that tumor cells of a particular cancer patient are always of a different transplantation type as the cells of normal tissues located elsewhere in the person’s body.

• true

• false

Tumors come from the patient's own tissues, not cells introduced from other people

• true

• false

Which combination of number of cells and term best describes the origins of most malignant growths?

• many, polyclonal

• one, polyclonal

• one, monoclonal

• many, monoclonal

The evidence for the type of tumor/cancer origin in the previous question is that all of the cells in the tumor have the same inactivated X-chromosome

• true

• false

Cancer stem cells may play a role in the formation, recurrence, and metastasis of many solid and hematologic cancer types and may present a target that must be eradicated to potentially produce a cure

• true

• false

How many genetic changes are usually observed in cancer cells?

• one

• more than one

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Cancer cells are genetically stable, without rearrangements, duplications, and deletions of pieces of their chromosomes

• true

• false

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A cancer cell nucleus is typically smaller than a normal cell's nucleus

• true

• false

Cancer cells do not do the job of normal differentiated cells and organs.

• true

• false

Cancer cells turn up the natural process of apoptosis, which allows for rapid growth

• true

• false