1answer.
Ask question
Login Signup
Ask question
All categories
  • English
  • Mathematics
  • Social Studies
  • Business
  • History
  • Health
  • Geography
  • Biology
  • Physics
  • Chemistry
  • Computers and Technology
  • Arts
  • World Languages
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Advanced Placement (AP)
  • SAT
  • Medicine
  • Law
  • Engineering
Illusion [34]
3 years ago
15

In normal cells, glucose is broken down aerobically and fed into the citric acid cycle to produce, among other things, lots of A

TP. Cancer cells, however do not. They instead break down glucose into lactic acid. This is very odd due to the fact that cancer cells are constantly growing and have typical glycolytic rates 200 times that of a normal cell. This even occurs under oxygen rich conditions.
Required:
Write a response to the following prompt.
Why might cancer cells produce ATP this way? Please provide background and cite any sources you may have used?
Biology
1 answer:
Zielflug [23.3K]3 years ago
8 0

Explanation:

Its was discovered back in the 1920s, by Dr. Ralph DeBerardinis and Dr. Joshua Rabinowitz that cancer cells prefer not to rely on the citric acid cycle like healthy cells do. Instead, they turn most of their pyruvate (SALT) into lactate, which then releases. Because cancer cells consume so much glucose, they end up producing a lot of lactate.

The Circle of Lactate: How cancer cells can reuse their own waste

by Lara Roach

Feb 13, 2018

You might be interested in
Heat from the sun moves through space by the process of
lorasvet [3.4K]
Heat from the sun moves through space by the process called <span>electromagnetic radiation. 

H</span>eat moves<span> in three different ways. They are radiation, conduction, and convection. Radiation happens when </span>heat moves<span> as energy waves, which are called infrared waves, directly from its source to something else. This is how the </span>heat from the Sun<span> gets to Earth.
<em>
</em><em>I hope this helps! ~<3~</em>
</span>
8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
What is the volume of the rectangular prism?
Sergeu [11.5K]

Answer:

270cm³

Explanation:

Volume of the rectangular prism: length * width * height.

In this case: 6cm * 9cm * 5cm

3 0
3 years ago
Anyone Know The Answers For These ?
Natalija [7]
1) plants
2) sugar
3) all
4) sugar and oxygen
5) not putting fertilizer on the soil
6) glucose
8 0
3 years ago
Consider the models of cell reproduction. Evaluate the statements and select ALL that are NOT supported by the models.
Novosadov [1.4K]

Answer and Explanation:

The cell division cycle is responsible for increasing and maintaining cell number and size. This cycle is an essential feature of living organisms. There are four phases of cell division mitotic phase (M phase), growth phase 1 (G1), growth phase 2 (G2), and synthesis phase (S). One phase of the cell cycle ends, and the other starts; this is named a phase transition—a unidirectional alteration in the cell cycle phases. During G1, G2, and S phase cell grows and during the M phase cell divides. There are two models of cell reproduction as the clock model and the domino model. The domino model implies that cell division phases must occur in a distinct order and at a definite time. The domino model recommends that the cell cycle events are independent, while the clock model shows that the effectiveness of mitosis entrance was not persuaded by other actions.

5 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
According to the second law of thermodynamics what happens to the energy we consume as food ?
PolarNik [594]
We store it as stored chemical energy
8 0
3 years ago
Read 2 more answers
Other questions:
  • Which are the only invertebrates that can fly?
    5·1 answer
  • 23. Fossils are rare because:
    8·1 answer
  • Which of the following is NOT a distinguishing feature of a synovial joint?
    7·1 answer
  • In 1859, Charles Darwin wrote, "The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tr
    15·1 answer
  • If scientists determine the age of a rock to be three billion years old, what else do they know? A) the rock came from outside t
    15·2 answers
  • Is a fox chasing after a rabbit, competition, predation, or symbiosis?
    7·1 answer
  • Two genes (R or r) and (D or d), each with a dominant and recessive allele, are
    7·2 answers
  • 4 Scientists want to know whether your genes or your environment has the biggest influence on your
    11·1 answer
  • _____ is a bad conductor of heat and electricity​
    9·2 answers
  • I REALLY NEED HELP!!! How does insertion, deletion, or substitution results in genetic variations?
    11·1 answer
Add answer
Login
Not registered? Fast signup
Signup
Login Signup
Ask question!