Cancer

Visit the website below "Cancer 101" and use this site to answer the following 7 questions in an EMAIL to ladams@homercenter.org: [|Cancer 101] 1. In your own words, what is cancer? 2. What is the difference between benign and malignant tumors? 3. How are cancers named? 4. Choose 4 risk factors and explain how they contribute to cancer. 5. How can you find cancer before it worsens or spreads? 6. What is a biopsy? 7. How might cancer research brighten the future?  __**Cancer questions:**__
 * __p53 Gene__ **[[image:adamsbiology/p53.gif width="90" height="104"]]
 * 1. Copy the following questions into your document or email. ** ** 2. Use the links below to answer the questions IN YOUR OWN WORDS. You will need to view both sites. ** ** 3. You need to EMAIL your answers to: ladams@homercenter.org **


 * A) What is p53?**
 * B) On what chromosome might you find p53?**
 * C) What role does p53 play for humans? What exactly is its function?**
 * D) What happens if p53 is missing or mutated?**
 * E) Define the following terms: apoptosis, tumor suppression, cancer, cell cycle**
 * F) Why is p53 the "guardian of the genome"?**


 * __LINKS__**
 * [|Cancer Link 1]**
 * [|Cancer Link 2]**

The Cell Cycle