DNA, Genetics, and Cancer

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Across
  1. 3. X-ray picture of the breast used to examine the human breast for diagnosis and screening.
  2. 6. Type of health care that focuses on the palliative care, comfort, and quality of life of a person with a serious illness who is end of life.
  3. 7. physical process of cell division, which divides the cytoplasm of a parent cell into two daughter cells.
  4. 8. The process by which a cell replicates its chromosomes and then segregates them, producing two identical nuclei in preparation for cell division.
  5. 10. Malignant tumors can break away, spread, and form more tumors in other locations. What is this process called?
  6. 11. The most serious type of skin cancer which develops in melanocytes (cells that produce melanin).
  7. 16. A type of cancer treatment that uses one or more anti-cancer drug as part of a standardized treatment regimen.
  8. 17. Type of cancer treatment that uses beams of intense energy to kill cancer cells.
  9. 19. Links a pair of sister chromatids together during cell division; the region where the cell’s spindle fibers attach.
  10. 21. Organ that exhibits the highest mortality rate of cancer.
Down
  1. 1. Stage in the eukaryotic cell cycle at which the cell examines the internal and external cues, and decides whether or not to move forward with division.
  2. 2. One half of a duplicated chromosome
  3. 4. Programmed cell death.
  4. 5. Broad term for cancers of the blood cells and blood-forming tissues.
  5. 9. Phase of the cell cycle between G1 and G2.
  6. 12. Stage of mitosis after the process of metaphase, when replicated chromosomes are split and the newly-copied chromosomes are moved to opposite poles of the cell.
  7. 13. Humans have ____ number of chromosomes
  8. 14. A long linear DNA molecule with part or all of the genetic material of an organism.
  9. 15. During prophase, chromosomes condense and ___ fibers form.
  10. 18. The main event occurring at G1 and G2 is cell ______.
  11. 19. Disease in which some of the body’s cells grow uncontrollably and spread to other parts of the body.
  12. 20. During metaphase, chromosomes line up in the ____ of the cell.