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Title: When an oncologist is teaching about how radiation induces genomic instability, which topic should ...
Post by: gltech99 on Feb 12, 2018
When an oncologist is teaching about how radiation induces genomic instability, which topic should the oncologist discuss?
 
  a. Increasing hypersensitivity
  b. Facilitating new mutations
  c. Promoting cell death
  d. Enhancing mitosis


Title: When an oncologist is teaching about how radiation induces genomic instability, which topic should ...
Post by: miri on Feb 12, 2018
ANS: B
Radiation induces genomic instability because it facilitates new mutations but it does not pro-mote hypersensitivity. Radiation may promote cell death, but this is not its role in inducing ge-nomic instability. Radiation does not enhance mitosis but halts it.