The Immortal Devil
This article was centered around the Tasmanian devil. One may think for their breeding habits or lifestyle, but it was what was growing in them. The cancer, devil facial tumor disease, was the prime focus of this article and many others after seeing the devastation it caused. At the start of the article a biologist by the name of Menna Jones who had caught a Tasmanian devil and she proceeded to do what she has done many times before. She dumped the small creature out of the cage and into a bag so she could measure and get what she needed. It was only once she took it out of the bag did she notice the tumors that were bulging from his face. They were fairly familiar to her remembering seeing them in other devils 2 years prior. When bring this information back to the a wildlife veterinarian when they told her that she’d have to bring back a euthanized devil to study she was unable to. She did eventually manage to find one who tumors ruptured in a way that …show more content…
There are many ways it goes back to cell cycle and main thing is mitosis. All the cancer cells can all be traced back to the original devil that the disease started with since they were all clones. This means that had undergone mitosis and since they aren’t working properly they ignore signals and keep multiplying and transferring to other devils when introduced making them malignant. Though not a part of cell cycle we’ve learned that a cell all has a unique signature and due to the fact that these cells signatures are hidden the cells that are supposed to get rid of them do not know to do such things. And going back to our first chapters involving evolution and how organisms adapt to things this was prevalent in dogs with CTVT and how the cells of CTVT had evolved to not kill off its host and how researchers hope the same will happen to the tasmanian devils disease,
This article was centered around the Tasmanian devil. One may think for their breeding habits or lifestyle, but it was what was growing in them. The cancer, devil facial tumor disease, was the prime focus of this article and many others after seeing the devastation it caused. At the start of the article a biologist by the name of Menna Jones who had caught a Tasmanian devil and she proceeded to do what she has done many times before. She dumped the small creature out of the cage and into a bag so she could measure and get what she needed. It was only once she took it out of the bag did she notice the tumors that were bulging from his face. They were fairly familiar to her remembering seeing them in other devils 2 years prior. When bring this information back to the a wildlife veterinarian when they told her that she’d have to bring back a euthanized devil to study she was unable to. She did eventually manage to find one who tumors ruptured in a way that …show more content…
There are many ways it goes back to cell cycle and main thing is mitosis. All the cancer cells can all be traced back to the original devil that the disease started with since they were all clones. This means that had undergone mitosis and since they aren’t working properly they ignore signals and keep multiplying and transferring to other devils when introduced making them malignant. Though not a part of cell cycle we’ve learned that a cell all has a unique signature and due to the fact that these cells signatures are hidden the cells that are supposed to get rid of them do not know to do such things. And going back to our first chapters involving evolution and how organisms adapt to things this was prevalent in dogs with CTVT and how the cells of CTVT had evolved to not kill off its host and how researchers hope the same will happen to the tasmanian devils disease,