Malignant tumors are classified by their embryonic

tissue of origin:

Carcinomas -derive from epithelia such as endoderm

(gut epithelium) or ectoderm (skin and neural epithelia) 

Sarcomas - derive from mesoderm (muscle, blood, and

connective tissue precursors)

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

During growth, unicellular D. discoideum monitor their cell density relative to that of their bacterial food source by secreting a glycoprotein called prestarvation factor at a constant rate.

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

(CFSE) or carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFDASE) is nontoxic to cells hence retained till many cycles

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

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#Unit 2. Cellular Organization

Degradation of Sic1 is induced by its phosphorylation by G1/S phase CDKs.

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#Unit 13. Methods in Biology

Molecular beacons are FRET-labelled single-stranded hairpin-shaped oligonucleotide probes originally developed by Tyagi and Kramer in 1996.