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29 Cards in this Set
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A replicated cell that should not have been
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Cancer
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A tumor that stays in the same place and is not cancerous
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Benign
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A tumor that can cause cancer and travels throughout the body
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Malignant
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Cancer cells differ in what three ways
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- divided when should not have
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Cancer is usually spread through this
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Lymphatic System
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collects fluids from microscopic blood vessels called capillaries
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lymphatic system
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a process where malignant tumors will break away and cause cancers at distant locations
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metastisis
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Asexual division
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mitosis
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produces daughter cells that are exact replicas of the parent cell
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mitosis
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microtubules contract and separate the sister chromatids from each other
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anaphase
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when copied chromosomes move into the daughter nuclei
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mitosis
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determines if it is necessary for a cell to divide
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G1
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double check the cell size
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G2
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verify chromosome have attached themselves to microtubules
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Metaphase
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normal genes that enable organisms to regulate cell division
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proto-onco genes
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genes that become mutated
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onco-genes
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serve as back up if proto-onco genes become mutated
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tumor suppressor
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supply a tumor with oxygen and nutrients
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angio genesis
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prevents cells from invading surrounding tissue
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contact inhibition
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holds normal cells in place
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anchorage dependence
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a sexual form of cell division
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meiosis
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meiosis produces what?
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gametes
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non-sexual chromosome
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autosomes
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x and y chromosomes
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sex chromosomes
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chromosomes arranged in pairs
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karyotypes
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pairs of non-sex chromosomes
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homologous
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a fertilized cell which contains two sets of chromosomes
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diploid
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when only one member of a homologous pair is present
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haploid
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crossing over occurs when
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prophase 1 of meiosis
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