Disease Unit- 2023

Programmed cell death is known as

• Mitosis

• Division

• Apoptosis

• Controlosis

True or False: Cancer cells are assigned a specific task, but do not function properly due to a mutation or damage to DNA.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

True or False: Normal cells have tumor or growth suppressors that control cell growth so that cells stop dividing when they need to.

• True

• False

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NGSS.HS-LS1-4

When enough cells have been made and are contacted on all sides by other cells around it, they stop dividing. This is known as...

• Mitosis

• Contact inhibition

• Oncogenesis

• Carcinogens

True or False: Normal cells will self destruct if they have a disease or mutation so that the mutation doesn't spread.

• True

• False

The process that cells use to make more cells for growth and repair is known as...

• Oncogenesis

• Apoptosis

• Mitosis

• Slimotosis

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NGSS.HS-LS1-4

What are the reasons a cell might undergo mitosis?

• If an organism is getting bigger or growing

• If old cells die

• If cells get damaged

• All of the above

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NGSS.HS-LS1-4

When a cell has a mutation, what is SUPPOSED to happen?

• Cell continues to divide anyway

• Cell undergoes apoptosis

• Cell divides until it reaches a high density

• Cell creates more mutations to fix the old mutation

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NGSS.HS-LS3-2

A gene is...

• A cancer cell

• Melanoma

• a section of DNA that codes for specific thing in a cell

• a whole chromosome

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NGSS.HS-LS3-1

Based on the image, what are the two types of vessels that can attach to a tumor? Check all that apply.

• Blood vessel

• Lung vessel

• Lymph vessel

• Neuron vessel