AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cancer is unchecked cell growth. Mutations in genes can cause cancer by accelerating cell division rates or inhibiting normal controls on the system, such as cell cycle arrest or programmed cell death. As a mass of cancerous cells grows, it can develop into a tumor.

Detailed explanation-2: -What is cancer? Cancer is essentially a disease of mitosis-the normal ‘checkpoints’ regulating mitosis are ignored or overridden by the cancer cell. Cancer begins when a single cell is transformed, or converted from a normal cell to a cancer cell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cancer is basically a disease of uncontrolled cell division.

Detailed explanation-4: -Mitosis occurs infinitely. The cells never die in cancer, as cancer cells can utilize telomerase to add many telomeric sections to the ends of DNA during DNA replication, allowing the cells to live much longer than other somatic cells. [3] With this mechanism, cancer cells that usually die simply continue to divide.

Detailed explanation-5: -Answer and Explanation: The scientific or medical term for uncontrolled cell proliferation is anaplasia.