Exam 22: Medical Genetics and Cancer

The age at which a disease appears in an organism is called the .

What is p53?

Checkpoint proteins act as which of the following?

In a cell culture you notice that a group of cells have begun to form a focus on a culture dish. These cells are most likely .

A is a cellular gene that has the potential to become an oncogene.

In the analysis of a family, you notice that males are more likely to contract a certain disease and the daughters of affected males produce 50% of their sons affected with the disease. This disease is displaying which of the following patterns of inheritance?

genes prevent the oncogenes from forming cancer.

Which of the following is not a prion related disease?

Prions can contain either DNA or RNA as their genetic material.

The term that indicates that cancer has begun to migrate to other parts of the body is .

Molecular profiling gives the unique gene expression profile of a cancer, allowing cancers to be distinguished from each other down to the single gene level.

You are analyzing a human pedigree for a new disease and discover that the disease occurs with the same frequency in both sexes and that 25% of the children from two unaffected heterozygous parents have the disease. This disease is displaying inheritance.

Which of the following is NOT an event that must occur for inherited retinoblastoma to develop?

Which of the following provides the earliest indication of genetic problems in a fetus?

Which of the following can convert a proto-oncogene into an oncogene?

A gene that promotes the development of cancer is called an .

Caspases are active during which of the following?

The first acutely transforming virus to be isolated was .

A genetic counselor would use genetic screening to check an entire population for a genetic abnormality that is associated with a disease.

Which of the following is a way that a tumor-suppressor gene can lose its function?