Malignant cell growth is uncontrolled because of which action?
a. Cancer cells always divide more rapidly than normal cells.
b. Mitosis of malignant cells usually pro-duces more than two daughter cells.
c. Malignant cells bypass one or more phases of the cell cycle during cell division.
d. Malignant cells enter the cell cycle fre-quently, making cell division continuous.
D
Malignant cells have bypassed the normal control mechanisms that restrict entry into the cell cycle, so they re-enter the cell cycle as soon as they finish a round of cell division. Thus, cancer cell division is relentless.
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