The Cell Cycle and Cancer
•Amoeba Sisters: The Cell Cycle and Cancer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpAa4TWjHQ4
•What is Cancer?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPgJafGz4fg
•Cancer Explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwbuW7oK8rk
•How to Cancer Cells Behave Differently?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmFEoCFDi-w
•How Does Cancer Spread Through the Body?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcigJn8UJNQ
•Why Is It So Hard to Cure Cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2rR77VsF5c
•Why We Haven’t Cured Cancer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tzaWOdvGMw
1. Which of the following are carcinogens (risk
factors that are known to cause cancer)?
a. harmful chemicals
b. genetic factors
c. excessive exposure to UV rays
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
2. There are many different types of cancer.
Which of the following is one thing they all have
in common?
a. They are all caused by uncontrolled cell death.
b. They all start in the lungs and migrate to different
parts of the body.
c. They are all caused by uncontrolled cell growth.
d. All of the above
e. None of the above
3. Mitosis (including cytokinesis) refers to a time
in the cell cycle when cells are...
a. growing
b. replicating DNA
c. dividing
d. dying
e. none of the above
4. What does it mean for cancerous cells to
“metastasize”?
a. grow
b. divide
c. die
d. spread
e. none of the above
5. True or False? Hair follicle cells grow very
slowly.
a. True
b. False
6. A mass of cancer cells is called:
a. a tumor
b. a carcinogen
c. a metastasis
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
7. Cells spend most of their time in:
a. interphase
b. mitosis
c. cytokinesis
d. apoptosis
e. none of the above
8. Which of the following statements about
cancer is true?
a. There is a cure for cancer, but no medical
treatments are currently available.
b. There are medical treatments for cancer, but no
cure currently exists.
c. Cancer cells can grow, but cannot move
throughout the body.
d. Cancer cells can move throughout the body,
but cannot grow.
e. None of the above are true statements.
9. Chemotherapy is a treatment for cancer that
works by targeting cells that:
a. are dying
b. do not go through the cell cycle
c. are replicating
d. go through the cell cycle too quickly
e. go through the cell cycle too slowly!
