Cambrian College

GENERAL BU 101

Assignment 008

1)Multipotent stem cells harvested from bone marrow have been used since 1960's to treat the following except what?

2. What are teratomas?

3. A type of stem cell that shares some of the same characteristics as stem cells that came from embryos such as proliferation, morphology and gene expression but came from adult differentiated cells

4. According to article which of the following would be the best definition for stem cell?

5. It is a self-organized system that performs complex life processes and is considered as the smallest unit of life

6. Sox2 and Oct4 are transcription factors which

7. Why is pluripotent stem cells have not yet been used therapeutically in humans? because many of the early animal studies resulted in the undesirable formation of unusual solid tumors

8. A type of stem cell that is restricted to becoming a more limited population of cells.

9. Cell that can only become one specialized cell type such as skin stem cells or muscle stem cells.