Mitosis and Cancerous Cells
Introduction
Mitosis is by definition, “A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.” Mitosis is a vital process to living organisms. Without mitosis, organisms could not grow, age, repair, or exist in general. Therefore, it is very important that the cell cycle is carefully controlled by the cell. This refers to is the limits set on cell division to prevent it from growing out of control, which are often special proteins. While it is true that certain cells, skin for example, divide faster than other cells, it is very dangerous for cells divide without limitation. “The uncontrolled growth and division …show more content…
The cancer cells divide at a much more rapid rate than normal cells, this is the reason why that is so. Regular cells have cancer/ tumor inhibitors built in to stop cells from growing out of control and harming the host. Another difference between regular cells and cancer cells, is that cancer cells don 't die, they are "immortal" and will live on forever basically. Cancer cells will grow even when they come into contact with other cells unlike regular cells which will stop growing. And the most basic difference between regular cells and cancer cells is that the proteins which inhibit rapid cell growth and division are most commonly no longer existent in cancer cells, which explains their rapid growths and …show more content…
This applies to all tissues observed with their cancerous counterparts. Because cancer is basically cells that have lost the ability to control or inhibit cell growth, cancerous tissues have a much higher percentage of cells that are in a state of division than those of the healthy counterparts. This was determined through using a microscope and knowledge of the cell cycle to determine the ratio of nondividing cells, those in interphase, to the number of dividing cells. Since the number was greater in the cancerous tissues than the healthy counterparts, it was concluded that cancerous tissues have a higher number of dividing
Introduction
Mitosis is by definition, “A type of cell division that results in two daughter cells each having the same number of chromosomes as the parent nucleus, typical of ordinary tissue growth.” Mitosis is a vital process to living organisms. Without mitosis, organisms could not grow, age, repair, or exist in general. Therefore, it is very important that the cell cycle is carefully controlled by the cell. This refers to is the limits set on cell division to prevent it from growing out of control, which are often special proteins. While it is true that certain cells, skin for example, divide faster than other cells, it is very dangerous for cells divide without limitation. “The uncontrolled growth and division …show more content…
The cancer cells divide at a much more rapid rate than normal cells, this is the reason why that is so. Regular cells have cancer/ tumor inhibitors built in to stop cells from growing out of control and harming the host. Another difference between regular cells and cancer cells, is that cancer cells don 't die, they are "immortal" and will live on forever basically. Cancer cells will grow even when they come into contact with other cells unlike regular cells which will stop growing. And the most basic difference between regular cells and cancer cells is that the proteins which inhibit rapid cell growth and division are most commonly no longer existent in cancer cells, which explains their rapid growths and …show more content…
This applies to all tissues observed with their cancerous counterparts. Because cancer is basically cells that have lost the ability to control or inhibit cell growth, cancerous tissues have a much higher percentage of cells that are in a state of division than those of the healthy counterparts. This was determined through using a microscope and knowledge of the cell cycle to determine the ratio of nondividing cells, those in interphase, to the number of dividing cells. Since the number was greater in the cancerous tissues than the healthy counterparts, it was concluded that cancerous tissues have a higher number of dividing