Which biological feature is specific to normal differentiated cells but not to cancer cells?
a. Anaplasia
b. Hypertrophy
c. Aneuploidy
d. Loose adherence
B
Some normal tissues increase in size by having individual cells get larger, a process called hypertrophy. Cancer cells are usually small and always grow by hyperplasia, not hypertrophy. The other features listed are characteristics that are associated with cancer cells and not normal differentiated cells.
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