Across
- 3. a drug treatment that uses powerful chemicals to kill fast-growing cells in your body
- 7. DNA _____________ - an enzyme that unwinds the double-stranded DNA molecule and separates it into two single strands.
- 11. ___________ Suppressor Gene - a gene that codes a protein that acts to regulate the rate of cell division
- 12. Cell ______________ - the process in which a cells changes from one cell type to another.
- 13. ______________ Inhibition - a process where cells halt their growth and movement when they come into contact with other cells
- 14. _________ Cells - special human cells that are able to develop into many different cell types
- 16. DNA _______________ - the process by which a cell creates an exact copy of its DNA before dividing
- 17. __________ therapy(CRISPR) - an experimental treatment that adds a new gene or replaces or repairs a mutated (changed) gene inside the body's cells
Down
- 1. a medical procedure used to physically remove cancer from the body
- 2. Cell ___________ - the stages of life a cell goes through.
- 4. ____________ therapy - a cancer treatment that slows or stops the growth of cancer that uses hormones to grow
- 5. a type of cell division that produces two genetically identical daughter cells from a single parent cell
- 6. uses high-energy EM waves to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors
- 8. treatment that uses a person's own immune system to fight cancer
- 9. the death of cells which occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism's growth or development
- 10. Stem Cell ___________ - a procedure where healthy stem cells are used to replace the damaged or cancerous stem cells in a patient's bone marrow
- 15. DNA ____________ - an enzyme that forms new copies of DNA by adding nucleotides to a single strand of original DNA