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1. Ellen is working for a pharmaceutical company as a researcher. She has been a

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Question

1. Ellen is working for a pharmaceutical company as a researcher. She has been asked

to work on a new drug development project (what she has given to her hand is

possibly curing prostate cancer). How she can start to investigate if this is true or not

through using apoptosis?

a. caspase activity assays

b. cytochrome c assays

c. cell cycle analysis

d. All of the above


2. Ellen measured the E-cadherin value in her cancer cell population. The value was less

than her reference value (normal control). What is that mean?

a. This can be a mixed population with normal cells

b. Normal cells only

c. Invasive cancer cells

d. none of the above

Explanation / Answer

1)b

2)b