You Are Studying Two Rodent Cell Lines,one Malignant and One

question 36

Multiple Choice

You are studying two rodent cell lines,one malignant and one normal.You carry out an experiment in which you fuse malignant and normal cells.What happens?

• A)All of the hybrid (fused)cells behave like malignant cancer cells.
• B)Some of the hybrid cells lose malignant traits.
• C)Some of the hybrid cells gained more extreme malignant traits.
• D)Most of the hybrids died shortly after fusion.
• E)The hybrids began to fuse together spontaneously making giant multinucleate cells.

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