15.4 Cancer

duction pathway

The ________ is activated when a signal is sent from the Ras to hydrolyze GTP.

Gene expression

________ can be altered in a way that leads to cancer.

Lung cancer patients

________ have a 5- year survival rate of 15 %.

Lung tissue

________ is composed of a functionalProtein is largely composed of expression.

checkpoint proteins

Sometimes ________ are not radation.

Caspases

What are required to regulate normal, healthy cell division, but they can stop being activated during a cell's death? Answer with a single words or term.

Xeroderma

________ is an inherited disease that affects cancer cells.

Gametes

________ are affected by germ- line and somatic stream mutations.

Cell division

________ is promoted by a Receptor.

Growth factor

________ plays a role in receptor activation.

adenine bases

What were altered? Answer with a single words or term.

single base pair

What is removed from the coding sequence? Answer with a single words or term.

Heart disease

What is the cause of death in humans? Answer with a single words or term.

Gene disease

Who is an inheritable trait after they are made? Answer with a single words or term.

Human cancers

What are associated with the amplification of certain genes? Answer with a single words or term.

Tumor suppressor genes

________ can be inactivated by patches of skin.

Cancer

What is usually a disease of older people because of the chemical or physical agents that cause it? Answer with a single words or term.

Alterations

What are caused by agents in the ate oncogenes? Answer with a single words or term.

UV light

________ has a mutagenic effect.

Point mutations

________ affect a single base pair and can alter the coding cigarette smoke, but the abnormal cells are likely to dis sequence of genes in several ways.