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Cell Regulation and Cancer NotesThe cell cycle is a very ________ process. - answer Controlled
What is regulation of the cell cycle important for? - answer Healthy cell growth
To regulate means.... - answer To control
What is the purpose of "checkpoints"? - answer Designed to be a check and balanced
system for the cell
Throughout the cell cycle, there are built in __________ - answer Checkpoints
What helps regulate the cell cycle? - answer Information from both inside and outside
the cell (internal and external)
Along the cell cycle, there are checkpoints to ensure that the cell is.... - answer
Growing, replicating DNA, cell functions
What external signals help regulate the cell cycle? - answer External physical and
chemical signals
Many cells release ________ that tell other cells to grow - answer Chemical signals
Growth factors - answer Proteins that stimulate cell division. Ex: cut skin
What do external factors bind to on the cell membrane? - answer Receptor
What starts a response inside a cell? - answer When the external factors bind to a
receptor on the cell membrane
What are some internal factors? - answer Enzymes and proteins
What do internal factors do? - answer Help a cell move through the cell cycle
What happens if a cell fails at a checkpoint? - answer Apoptosis
What is apoptosis? - answer A programmed cell death
Just as cells need to grow and divide, other cells need to _____ - answer Grow and
divide
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