Critical Thinking Activities - Chapter 16

Question 1. Once human red blood cells have left the bone marrow, they have also lost their nucleus and with it the genetic DNA coding for hemoglobin. How can they continue to synthesize hemoglobin for several months without a nucleus?

Question 2. Describe why it is technically correct to assert that we do not die of cancer but that cancer cells die from us.

Answers are available to instructors in the Instructor's Manual.
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