Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Biology

Chapter

Human Health and Disease

Question:
Which among the following is not a property of cancerous cell ?
Options:
Cancer causing viruses called oncogenic viruses.
Malignant tumors cells grow very rapidly, invading and damaging the surrounding normal tissues.
Cancer cells show a property called contact inhibition.
Transformation of normal cells into cancerous neoplastic cells may be induced by carcinogens.
Correct Answer:
Cancer cells show a property called contact inhibition.
Explanation:
Normal cells show a property called contact inhibition by virtue of which contact with other cells inhibits their uncontrolled growth. Cancer cells appears to have lost this property. As a result of this, cancerous cells just continue to divide giving rise to masses of cells called tumors.