Cell Growth Control

Learning Objectives

• Students should be able to describe how cyclin expression and CDK activity ensure an ordered profession through the cell cycle
• Students should be able to describe how phosphorylation regulates the activity of cyclin-CDK
• Students should be able to define and identify oncogenes and tumor suppressors
• Students should be able to list examples of positive feedback in the regulation of the cell cycle
• Students should be able to diagram how mitogens and anti-mitogens control a cell's entry into Start
• Students should be able to describe how DNA damage and unattached chromosomes arrest the cell cycle