Question

1. suppose your cells continue to help heal the scrape that resulted from falling off your bike. what might happen if the cell cycle did not go into a rest phase? explain by completing the sentence stems provided. if the cell cycle is never put into the rest phase after a healing event then ____. continued cell replication after healing was complete would increase the __. over generation of tissue would result __. with tumor formation occurring we might eventually see the development of ____.

Explanation:

1. For the first blank: If the cell cycle doesn't enter a rest phase, cells will keep dividing uncontrollably. So we can say "cells would continue to divide uncontrollably".
2. For the second blank: Continued cell replication after healing is complete would increase the "amount of tissue (or cell mass)".
3. For the third blank: Over - generation of tissue would result in "a mass of tissue (a tumor) forming".
4. For the fourth blank: With tumor formation, we might eventually see the development of "cancer (as tumors can become cancerous and spread)".

Answer:

If the cell cycle is never put into the rest phase after a healing event then \boldsymbol{cells would continue to divide uncontrollably}.
Continued cell replication after healing was complete would increase the \boldsymbol{amount of tissue (or cell mass)}. Over generation of tissue would result \boldsymbol{in a mass of tissue (a tumor) forming}.
With tumor formation occurring we might eventually see the development of \boldsymbol{cancer (as tumors can become cancerous and spread)}.