Taxol Is an Anti-Cancer Drug That Prevents Uncontrolled Cell Proliferation

question 15

Multiple Choice

Taxol is an anti-cancer drug that prevents uncontrolled cell proliferation by stabilizing microtubules, which causes arrest of the cell cycle. If dividing cells are treated with Taxol, at what stage of the cell cycle would you predict the arrest would occur?

• A)prophase
• B)metaphase
• C)anaphase
• D)telophase
• E)G₁ of interphase

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