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Cancer & Genetics Review
1. What is cancer? How are cancer cells different from normal cells?
2. What are the 3 genes involved in cancer? How are they involved? Explain in detail.
3. Why is cancer known as hundreds of diseases, rather than one disease?
4. What are the causes &/or contributing factors of cancer?
5. What is a biopsy? How does it relate to cancer?
6. What is a carcinogen?
7. What is angiogenesis?
8. What is metastasis? What does this have to do with cancer?
9. What are the 2 main types of tumors? Explain how they are different from each other.
10. What are the various treatments for cancer? Give examples of when they might be used.
11. How does cancer relate to a person’s age?
12. Being right-handed is a dominant trait, while left-handed is recessive. Predict the genotypic and
phenotypic ratios of offspring from parents that are both heterozygous right-handed.
13. Predict the genotypic and phenotypic ratios of the offspring from a homozygous dominant
person with a Widow’s Peak and a homozygous recessive person without a Widow’s Peak.
14. The gene for baldness is found on the X chromosome. Predict the genotypic and phenotypic
ratios of offspring from a carrier female and a bald male.
15. Make a chart of the 4 blood types. Include the possible genotypes and phenotypes of each one.
State which blood types are known as the universal receiver and universal donor.
16. If a person has type A blood, what type of blood can he/she receive in a blood transfusion?
17. How is it possible to determine someone’s blood type? (think of the activity done in class)
18. How can a genetic counselor tell from a gene test if a person has Huntington’s Disease?