Cancer and Mutations Quiz

What type of mutation is occurs in the reproductive cells?

• germ cell

• somatic cell

What type of mutation changes just one base of the DNA?

• chromosomal mutation

• frame shift mutation

• point mutation

What type of chromosomal mutation occurs when a piece of chromosome is lost due to chromosomal breakage?

• inversion

• deletion

• duplication

• translocation

What type of mutation occurs when a piece of chromosome breaks off and reattaches upside down?

• inversion

• deletion

• duplication

• translocation

What type of mutation occurs in body cells and will not be passed on to offspring?

• lethal

• germ cell

• somatic cell

What type of mutation occurs when a base is added or deleted and will effect every amino acid from that point on?

• point

• frame-shift

• somatic

What type of chromosomal mutation occurs when a chromosome gets both of the alleles for a gene?

• inversion

• deletion

• duplication

• translocation

What type of chromosomal mutation occurs when a piece of chromosome breaks off and reattaches to a non-homologous chromosome?

• inversion

• deletion

• duplication

• translocation

Match the following

• dysplasia

• Cells that are dividing too often and look abnormal

• hyperplasia

• When cancer cells spread through out the body

• in situ cancer

• Cells that are just about to invade nearby tissue

• metastasis

• Cells that are dividing too often

Lethal mutations prevent the individual from progressing past the (a)   stage.