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Environmental Risk Factors for Cancer
Analyze how ionizing radiation, chemical carcinogens, and oncogenic viruses induce DNA mutations that disable tumor suppressor genes and activate proto-oncogenes.

Analyze how ionizing radiation, chemical carcinogens, and oncogenic viruses induce DNA mutations that disable tumor suppressor genes and activate proto-oncogenes.
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9th Grade · Science · Open Global Science
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Describe eukaryotic cell cycle phases, semiconservative DNA replication, and mitotic division, explain stem cell differentiation, and analyze oncogenic checkpoint failures.