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How do cells grow and divide in cancer?

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by way of meiosis one and two. the dna is replecated and thus more and more of these cancerous cells are produced. the cells are also able to move from one place to another because of a lack of homeostasis.

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How do cancer cells grow and divide?

Cancer cells divide excessively and invade other tissues. They do not have density dependence or anchorage dependence. Simply put, regular cells grow in an even layer while cancer cells grow tightly and on top of each other - an unnatural mass.


When we grow do our cells grow or divide?

Cells divide.


What is the disease where the cells grow and divide uncontrollablly?

In humans, this cellular behavior is called "cancer"


How does cancer happens?

Cells in our body grow, divide, and die in a certain way. Cancer happens when cells either grow, divide, or die wrong or in the wrong way. It ends up being an unpredictable manner that causes uncontrolled growth and division.


How do cancer cells behave inside the human body?

Cancer cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors. Although cancer cells can be quite common in a person they are only malignant when the other cells (particularly natural killer cells) fail to recognize and/or destroy them.


One difference between a cancer cell and a normal cell is that?

a. cancer cells divide uncontrollably. b. normal cells cannot make copies of DNA. c. cancer cells cannot make copies of DNA. d. normal cells divide uncontrollably. (A) cancer cells divide uncontrollably


What happens to cells as they grow and divide?

In multi-cellular organisms as cells grow and divide, they specialize.


When culturing cells why do researchers prefer cancer cells over healthy cells extracted from an organism?

Cancer cells divide quickly and almost indefinitely. This makes them easy to grow in a dish while tissue culture with healthy cells is almost impossible.


Is it important for cells to divide?

If cells do not divide properly, then many problems can occur, cancer cells for example.


Cancer is a disease in which some cells lose ability to control their?

Their Growth Rate. It's the high school bookworm again! :D


Why do cancer cells go through the cell cycle rapidly?

Cancer cells lack the gene that stops cell growth at a certain point which causes them to grow and grow and not stop. Therefore, in cell growth, a cancer cell has nothing to tell it to stop growing.


Is aids a form of cancer?

No. HIV is a virus which invades from outside the body. Cancer is one's own cells inside the body which grow uncontrollably.