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Cells that lack checkpoints and fail to respond to cell cycle controls are defective, and may be cancerous.
What is cell?
- "A cell is the structural and functional unit of life."
- Each cell divide to produce new daughter cell.
What do you mean by cell cycle?
- "A cell cycle is a series of events that takes place in a cell as it grows and divides."
- Cell cycle consists 5 stages: G1 (cell grow in volume), S (synthesis of DNA), G2 (further cell growth), mitosis and cytokinesis (division of cell).
What is a checkpoints?
- "It is a surveillance mechanisms that monitor the order, integrity, and fidelity of the major events of the cell cycle."
- It decides whether a cell can proceed further in a cycle.
If a cell lack checkpoints then it will not get monitored and it gets divided further even it was not suppose to and forms a large mass of cell (cancerous).
Hence, the correct answer is C. Defective, and may be cancerous.
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