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Q: What can cause a cell the divide out of control?
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What are places in the cell cycle that control whether the cell will divide?

checkpoints


How does Ultra Violet radiation cause skin cancer?

The radiation damages a person's DNA, which causes a mutation that makes the cell divide out of control.


What control when and how fast cell grow and divide?

Simple growth factors.


When a cell continues to divide abnormally and without the control of checkpoints this is called?

cancer


Technical name for when a cell starts to reproduce or divide out of control?

Cancer is a condition characterized by cells dividing out of control


What are places in a cell cycle that control whether the cell will divide?

Under ordinary / usual conditions, a Cell will decide to divide when it reaches a certain size, and is reticent to get bigger. See above for the Short Answer!


What kind of cell don't respond to normally to the bodys control system for cell division and divide excessively?

Cancerous cells.


How many hours does it take cell A to divide when its control mechanisms aren't working correctly?

12 Hours.


If the cell cycle is uncontrolled what will happen to the cell?

Ff a cell is uncontrolled means it will divide vigourously in abnormal manner and will cause tumor of cancer.


What has a cell host lost control of during cancer?

The ability to stop mitosis. Cancer is cells that continually divide.


The two types of cell cycle genes if mutated cause cancer cells to divide uncontrollably are called tumor suppressor genes and?

The two types of cell cycle genes that cause cancer cells to divide uncontrollably if mutated are called tumor suppressor genes and antioncogene


What is one factor can cause the cell cycle to lose control?

Loss of cell cycle control is typically an oncogenic process. For cancer to occur, the cells need to replicate beyond any normal physiological control. To answer your question, one factor that in important in controlling the cell cycle is p53. p53 is a checkpoint control in the G1 phase of the cell cycle. Defects in p53 cause a loss of cell cycle regulation and are considered an oncogenic transformation.