Question
These cells’ hypertriploid chromosome number is somewhere from 76 to 80. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these immortalized human cells beloved by researchers that were unethically taken from cervical cancer specimens of a patient at Johns Hopkins.
ANSWER: HeLa cells [prompt on Henrietta Lacks]
[10e] HeLa cells were essential for developing vaccines for this pathogen after Harald zur Hausen found that genetic information from strain 18 of this virus was present within them and almost certainly caused Lacks’ cervical cancer.
ANSWER: HPV [or human papillomavirus]
[10h] The presence of HPV genes in the HeLa genome is due to this general process of genetic information moving between organisms in a nonreproductive manner.
ANSWER: horizontal gene transfer [or HGT; accept lateral gene trasnsfer]
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