So your last five experiments in the lab have failed, you have three exams and t

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So your last five experiments in the lab have failed, you have three exams and two term papers coming up in the next week and worse of all you have no beer or wine at home. A classmate in a similar situation convinces you that you can escape civilization and boring professors, move to South America and raise Alpacas, which are prized for their wool. You go for it! You arrive at the Andes and life is good. Everything is going great! Your sweaters are selling for $500 each but one day you notice that your favorite Alpaca, Lucy, has a big lump on her side that appears to be a malignant tumor. A local veterinarian is able get you a biopsy of the tumor. You quickly ship it to your old lab. A few days later, you receive an email from your lab and it indicates that Lucy has a mammary tumor. Answer the following question:

Once the veterinarian is able to remove the tumor, what are some of the drugs that you can give Lucy to prevent the recurrence of the tumor? What pathway would you most likely target?   and why?

Explanation / Answer

we have to give lucy those kinds of drugs which are targeting DNA replication and inhibit their duplication. since cancerous cells divide rapidly and they do not have more proofreading of DNA synthesis. so the drug will interact with the DNA, inhibit its synthesis hence stop cancer cell proliferation.

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