Genetics and Cancer

____ means cancerous.

• Malignant
• Metastesis
• Mitosis
• Replication

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

These genes are normally active when the cell needs to divide, and can be ‘switched off’ if the cell receives instructions from the organism to stop dividing.

• Proto-oncogenes

• Tumour suppressor genes

• DNA repair genes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Cancer spreading to another tissue is called

• Malignant
• Metastesis
• Mitosis
• Replication

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

Cancer tumors result from

• rapid cell division
• rapid DNA replication
• slow cell division
• long interphase

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Genes which produce proteins that normally stimulate cell division

• Proto-oncogenes

• Tumour suppressor genes

• DNA repair genes

Tumor cells grow because of

• errors in mitosis.

• incomplete DNA replication.

• slow S phase.

• long G2 Phase.

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

These genes cause apoptosis

• Proto-oncogenes

• Tumour suppressor genes

• DNA repair genes

A cell needs 2 copies of these mutated genes to become cancerous because they are usually recessive

• Proto-oncogenes

• Tumour suppressor genes

• DNA repair genes

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS3-2

What happens during S Phase?

• anaphase
• mitosis
• cancer
• DNA Replication

Cells grow and do their job during ___.

• G2 phase
• M phase
• G1 phase
• S phase