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How is cancer related to mutations? How is it related to the cell cycle?

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Well cancer causes uncontrolled cell division so the part of the cell cycle that instructs the cells to stop replicating is missing or dysfunctional. Therefore cytokinesis keeps occurring and the cytoplasm keeps dividing due to a mutation in the gene of the cell
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Cancer is related to the cell cycle bc, cancer cells mutate. Cancer is unchecked cell growth. Mutations in genes can cause cancer by making cell division rates go up faster or inhibiting normal controls on the system, such as cell cycle arrest or programmed cell death. As a mass of cancerous cells grows, it can develop into a tumor

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