NURS 504: PATHO/PHYS: MODULE 3 TEST QUESTIONS
WITH ACCURATE SOLUTIONS
what are 4 ways in which increased cellular proliferation can occur? -- Answer ✔✔ 1.
too many growth factors
2. too many growth factor receptors
3. too much signal transduction
4. too much signal transcription
what is the difference between how a loss of a tumor suppressor gene occurs versus
the creation of an oncogene? -- Answer ✔✔ requires mutation at both alleles instead of
just one
when both chromosome copies (alleles) of a gene are inactivated -- Answer ✔✔ loss of
heterozygosity
tissue overgrowth which is independent of the laws governing the remainder of the
body and serves no useful purpose -- Answer ✔✔ Tumor
another name of a "tumor" meaning "new growth" -- Answer ✔✔ neoplasm
benign tumor suffix -- Answer ✔✔ -oma
