AP BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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-3: -Cancer cells spend less time in interphase and reproduce rapidly before the cells have had a chance to mature. cells “hear” these signals they stop growing.

Detailed explanation-4: -The G0 phase is a form of the resting state, or quiescence, in which cells reside until they receive appropriate signals-for example, from growth factors-stimulating them to re-enter and progress through the cell cycle.