How Is Cancer Is More Potent Than A Cell Inflicted With A Virus If They Have Similar Characteristics?
Posted on | February 7, 2010 | 3 Comments
A virus is foreign RNA enters the body and actually becomes part of the cell’s DNA. Cancer is caused when the DNA of a cell becomes mutated one way or another and the cell will divide and replicate uncontrollably. Both “virused” and cancerous cells are cells with mutations in the DNA. To me, virus is just RNA that causes mutation from the outside whereas cancer is mutations that come from within. Where is the real difference between these two mutations, if not in potency and ability to damage the body?
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February 7th, 2010 @ 11:51 pm
Not all viruses are RNA viruses – but this is an intelligent question.
Most viruses insert a message that says “make more of me”
- – more viral particles.
The DNA damage of malignancies turns off the cellular control mechanisms that tell cells to stop dividing – so cells divide / reproduce without control as you say.
The differences is reproduction of cells vs reproduction of viral particles.
There are over 26,000 genes in the human genome.
Damage to each one has different consequences.
Nothing is simple in the human body, and it gets more complicated each year as brilliant researchers unravel the mechanisms of function associated with each gene.
There are some very smart people on this site who can explain this in much more elaborate detail if they see this question. Good question. You are thinking.
That’s what I ask of my students first and foremost – think.
There are viruses associated with some human malignancies.
I think we will find more of these in the future.
February 8th, 2010 @ 12:07 am
^that
real difference- they affect different genes
February 8th, 2010 @ 6:34 am
To me you just answered your own question.
And ask a biology teacher