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Author Question: Cells from an advanced malignant tumor most often have very abnormal chromosomes (Read 751 times)

curlz

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on: Jun 17, 2013
Cells from an advanced malignant tumor most often have very abnormal chromosomes, and often an abnormal total number of chromosomes. Why might this occur?
A) Cancer cells are no longer density dependent.
B) Cancer cells are no longer anchorage dependent.
C) Chromosomally abnormal cells can still go through cell cycle checkpoints.
D) Chromosomally abnormal cells still have normal metabolism.
E) Transformation introduces new chromosomes into cells.


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Reply #1 on: Jun 18, 2013
Go with C, I'm pretty sure it's that.


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Reply #2 on: Jul 29, 2013
Great..that really helped.


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