Final Final review 20

How are cancer cells units of selection?

What is atavism?

Which genus made the first step ion the evolution of multicellular organisms?

What are oncogenes and what are oncosuppressors? Specify what HEr2 does?

Is p53 a oncogene or oncosupressors? What is its significance?

What is the TNM staging system?

What mutations might cause cancer cells to drive their own proliferation?

How do cancer cells evade growth suppression?

How are cancer cells resistant to apoptosis?

Why do cancer cells have an unlimited ability to replicate?

What is required for a tumor to grow beyond 1-2 mm? What is a mutation that helps with this?? What is a FDA method against this feature of cancer?

How do tumor cells have an uncontrolled capacity for invasion and metastasis?

How do cancer cells have altered metabolism?

How do tumor cells avoid being targeted by the immune cells?

Describe genome instability as it pertains to Cancer?

What is Melanoma? What mutations are associated with it?

What are the evolutionary explanations for melanoma?

Describe colon cancer. What are the genetic and environmental factors in the disorder?

What is the evolutionary explanation and evolutionary medicine perspective?

What is lung cancer? What are some risk factors and symptoms of lung cancer?

What are the different types of lung cancer?

What is the evolutionary medicine perspective for lung cancer?

Which genes that affect breast cancer?

What are evolutionary perspective and treatments for breast cancer?

SKIPPING OVER MENTAL HEALTH

Describe the genetics of MDD and the symptoms

Describe the evolutionary perspective and evolutionary explanation of MDD

Describe the risk factors for PTSD

What is the evolutionary medicine perspective for PTSD

What neurotransmitter systems is OCD associated with?

What is the evolutionary explanation and perspective for OCD?

FOR THE PROJECTS I AM IGNORING EVERYTHING I CONSIDER SIMPLE AND KNOWN

What are the genetic factors for Alzheimer’s'?

Describe the evolutionary background/mismatch of Alzheimer’s

How is Alzheimer’s disease diagnosed?

What are some limitations with diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease?

Who does not respond to colchicine? What is the evolutionary arms race in FMF?

What is an evolutionary method to stop FMF?

Describe Typhoid fever. How is so effective at infecting?

What genes arae affected in Typhoid fever?

What is the evolutionary mismatch&resistance+hypothesis for typhoid fever?

What are some current treatments+future implications of typhoid fever? What might we use in evolutionary medicine?

Schizophrenia