Cell Differentiation Practice

What is the role of stem cells in cell differentiation?

• They serve as a precursor for generalized cells

• These cells can turn into specialized cells and back into generalized cells when needed

• They are generalized cells that can lead to specialized cells

• They are specialized cells that can lead to generalized cells

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Nerve cells have different DNA from hair and skin cells in your body.

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• False

What is cell differentiation?

• Process by which cells produce MORE cells.

• Process by which cells become UNSPECIALIZED

• Process by with cells become SPECIALIZED

• Process by which cells become old and DIE

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Your red blood cells are a type of

• Specialized cell

• Embryonic stem cell

• Adult stem cell

• Induced stem cell

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Which type of cell can only do ONE specific job

• Specialized cell

• Embryonic Stem Cell

• Adult Stem Cell

• Induced Stem Cell

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

• Embryonic stem cells can differentiate into more cell types than adult stem cells
• Adult stem cells are pluripotent, just like embryonic stem cells
• Adult stem cells can differentiate into more cell types than embryonic stem cells
• Adult stem cells grow bigger than embryonic stem cells

_________ instruct the cell on how and when to build the proteins that allow it to build structures and perform its specialized functions.

• proteins

• genes

• ribosomes

• mitochondria

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When a gene is activated and creates a product for the cell, the process is called -

• gene expression

• locomotion

• translation

• heredity

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The process of a simple cell becoming more specialized is called -

• transcription

• translation

• cell multiplication

• cell differentiation

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Multicellular organism begin as one cell to undifferentiated masses of cells and ultimately have different type of cells due to

• different DNA

• deactivated DNA

• gene expression in specific parts of DNA

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