Answer:
Based on Murchison’s research and presentation, I agree with the definition of cancer as a “strange, short-lived, self-destructive life form; an evolutionary dead end”.
Step-by-step explanation:
I agree with Murchison's definition because of the nature of cancer to branch and diversify in the process of changing or evolving; this makes it strange, and from the information revealed by Murchison’s study on the Tasmanian devil—which is an animal that has a pouch like a kangaroo, and whose specie has been undergoing extinction as a result of cancer—cancer is contagious; meaning that it is easily transmitted. As a result of the evolving, contagious and destructive nature of cancer, coupled with the fact that people struggle with it and die, and it has been making a whole specie (Tasmanian devil) to undergo extinction, I agree with Murchison’s definition of cancer as a “strange, short-lived, self-destructive life form; an evolutionary dead end”.