Question

a sample of human cells is suspended in a nutrient solution overnight. The next dasy, the scientist observes that the cells have undergone high rates of division. Why does this lead her to suspect that the cells are cancerous

Answer 1

The question is incomplete as it misses the options which are:

Cancer cells do not exhibit density dependent inhibition

Cancer cells do not require growth factors

Cancer cells do not exhibit anchorage dependence

Cancer cells ignore typical cell cycle checkpoints

Answer:

The correct answer will be option- Cancer cells do not exhibit anchorage dependence

Explanation:

A cell becomes tumour forming cell or cancerous cell when the cell undergoes some mutation in the DNA which causes uncontrolled cell division without differentiation.

As a result of the mutation, these cancerous cells show various properties which are present in the normal cells nut absent in cancerous cells like the cancerous cells lack the anchorage dependence.

Anchorage dependence is the property of the cells or the group of cells in which the cells maintain their adherence to the other layer of cells to communicate with each other.

Thus, the cancerous cells lack the anchorage dependence