Stem Cells and Cancer

The process by which cells undergo progressive and coordinated change to a more specialised type is...

• Reprogramming

• Dedifferntiation

• Differentiation

• Cloning

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Stem cells are relatively differentiated and have the ability to self-renew.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-2

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Cells which can become any kind of cell and give rise to an entire organism are....

• Multipotent

• Pluripotent

• Totipotent

In therapuetic cloning, cells from adult tissue are inserted into donor egg by which process

• Cell fusion

• Cell division

• Cell transfection

APC is an example of

• An oncogene

• A tumour suppressor

Stem cells are differentiated, self-renewing cells

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

Which process described a cell changing from a differentiated state to intermediate then multi or pluripotent?

• Differentiation

• Transdifferentiation

• Reprogramming

Which signalling pathway is activated in the gut to induce cell proliferation?

• MAPK pathway

• p53 pathway

• APC pathway

• Wnt pathway

Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS) are generated first by taking which sample?

• Embryonic stem cell mass

• Skin biopsy

• Human umbilical cord blood

• None of the above

Cancer which arises from epithelial tissue is characterised further as....

• Sarcoma

• Lymphoma

• Carcinoma

• Glioblastoma