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? asked in Science & MathematicsBiology · 8 years ago

HELP! AP BIO CROSSWORD PART 2!!!?

Please help me with these definitions...Your help is greatly appreciated.

12. Small cell signaling proteins used in intercellular communication (1 word: 9 (letters))

13. Programmed cell death is also known as this ( 1 word: 9)

14. The process by which a less specialized cell becomes a more specialized cell type (2 words: 4,15)

15. Premature death of cells or tissues through injury or disease (1 words: 8)

16. A condition where mutations in genes regulating cell growth and division allow cells to grow and divide in an uncontrolled fashion resulting in a tumor (1 word: 6)

17. A cluster of genes in E.coli, under the control of a single regulatory promoter, in which lactose acts as the inducer ( 2 words: 3,6)

18. The creation of the shape and form of the body (1 word: 13)

19. Proteins that bind to specific DNA sequences to regulate transcription (2 words: 13, 7)

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  • 8 years ago
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    There are 2 that I am VERY unsure of, and that I put down mainly because they have the right number of letters and are somewhat, somehow, slightly related. But the rest I'm confident are correct.

    12. paracrine (???)

    13: apoptosis

    14. cell differentiation

    15. necrosis (???)

    16. cancer

    17. lac operon

    18. morphogenesis

    19. transcription factors

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    12. paraceron

    13. Apoptosis

    14. Cell Differentiation

    15. Necrosis

    16. Cancer

    17. Lac Operon

    18. Morphogenesis

    19. transcription factors

  • 8 years ago

    I only have a few:

    12. paracrine

    13. apoptosis

    14. --

    15. --

    16. cancer

    17. lac operon

    18. --

    19. transcription enzymes/factors

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    12)

    13) apoptosis

    14) cell differentiation

    15)

    16) cancer

    17)

    18) determination

    19)

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  • ?
    Lv 4
    4 years ago

    Biology isn't my area of information (i'm a physics man or woman) yet i will attempt? 2. An organism with 2 gadgets of chromosomes. - diploid? 3. An organism which could stay with out oxygen (AIR). - anaerobic 6. The smallest particle of a substance that keeps the chemical and actual residences of the substance and is composed of two or extra atoms. - molecule sixteen. something with out cells. - Nonliving? 26. a variety of chemical compound created from CARBON and hydrogen that's used as an capability source by way of animals. - Carbohydrates

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