Biology: Science for Life with Physiology (5th Edition)
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Author: Colleen Belk, Virginia Borden Maier
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 6, Problem 2CTS
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The person should be tested for the cell cycle mutations or not.
Knowing the presence of mutation of proto-oncogenes can be beneficial or not.
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The proto-oncogenes are the genes, which regulate the cell cycles and the cell deaths. The main function of the proto-oncogenes is to maintain a specific number of cells. Some of the proto-oncogene regulates the cell cycle by the providing the signals to promote the cell division and some of the proto-oncogenes are involved in the programmed cell death of unwanted or damaged cell.
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Which of the following is an example of a proto-oncogene?
1) cell cycle inhibitor
2) tumor suppressor
3) oncogene
4) repair enzyme
5) growth factor receptor
Put a checkmark next to any of the following scenarios that would make it MORE likely that a cell would divide when it is not supposed to, increasing the chance that it would become cancerous. CHOOSE ALL THAT APPLY.
A) A tumor suppressor gene is over-expressed
B) A cyclin gene is mutated so that it is expressed at all times during the cell cycle
C) A cyclin-dependent kinase gene is mutated so that in the Cdk is no longer dependent on its cyclin
D) A Cdk gene is mutated so that the Cdk protein is not made
E) Mutation of an oncogene that causes it to no longer be expressed
F) A proto-oncogene gene is expressed at higher than normal levels
G) The p53 gene is mutated so that no p53 protein is made
Imagine that there are mutations in the CDK genes such that their gene products are nonfunctional. What effect would this
mutation have on an immature unspecialized blood cell precursor found in the bone marrow?
The cell would not be able to reproduce itself.
The cell would complete the cell cycle using cyclins in the absence of CDKS.
The cell would be able to replicate its DNA but not translate DNA into RNA.
The cell would be able to enter mitosis but not complete it.
The cell would still phosphorylate the CDK-associated target proteins, and would do so more quickly.
Chapter 6 Solutions
Biology: Science for Life with Physiology (5th Edition)
Ch. 6 - Prob. 1LTBCh. 6 - Prob. 2LTBCh. 6 - A cell that begins mitosis with 46 chromosomes...Ch. 6 - The centromere is a region at which ___________....Ch. 6 - Prob. 5LTBCh. 6 - At metaphase of mitosis, ___________. the...Ch. 6 - Sister chromatids ___________. are two different...Ch. 6 - DNA polymerase ___________. attaches sister...Ch. 6 - Prob. 9LTBCh. 6 - Prob. 10LTB
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