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Week 4 Tutorial Questions on Cell Biology

This document provides 5 tutorial questions about biology concepts. The questions cover how drugs that inhibit microtubule growth can be useful medically, the roles of actin in movement, what the endomembrane system is and how it operates, what factors cause cell differentiation in embryos, and how stem cells could be used in medicine but may be controversial.

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Week 4 Tutorial Questions on Cell Biology

This document provides 5 tutorial questions about biology concepts. The questions cover how drugs that inhibit microtubule growth can be useful medically, the roles of actin in movement, what the endomembrane system is and how it operates, what factors cause cell differentiation in embryos, and how stem cells could be used in medicine but may be controversial.

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Revised 2018 Tutorial questions Week 4

Tutorial III

1. The drugs vinblastine and vincristine are used to inhibit microtubule growth. Why would such drugs
be useful in medicine?

2. Discuss the roles that actin plays in movement and locomotion.

3. What exactly is the endomembrane system and how does it operate?

4. What factors are responsible for differentiation of cells in a developing embryo?

5. How do you think that stem cells could be used in the medical field? Why might this be considered a
controversial process?

EJH 2018

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