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2. In this kind of feedback system, the output of the system amplifies the system's activity
4. long-distance signaling that involves hormones moving through the bloodstream
5. Cells with broken tumor suppressors are like cars with broken
8. A waterfall. Or, when one kinase activates a second, then a third, and so on
9. a general term for a signaling molecule that binds with a receptor
10. calcium and cAMP are this number of messengers
11. The process of changing a message into another form
12. in bacteria, signals that depend on population density
13. One signal activates millions of enzymes
16. The last name of the enzyme that produces cyclic AMP
18. How proteins become activated by kinase enzymes
19. These factors move into the nucleus and "turn on" genes

1. Maintaining internal stability or a set point, even in the face of external change
3. In this kind of feedback system, the output of the system works to turn the system down (or off)
6. When p53 malfunctions, cells will divide even if their DNA is _________
7. this small nonpolar hormone binds with cytoplasmic receptors after diffusing through the membrane
8. RAS mutations result in cells where cell division signaling pathways are __________ active
14. Cancer cells have mutations that enable them to inappropriately pass through cell cycle __________
15. Programmed cell death
17. The primary organ that stores excess glucose as glycogen