Cells and Cancer and Mitosis and Meiosis”
Note: Online students, please respond to one (1) of the following three (3) bulleted items.

Listen to one (1) of the following podcasts listed below:NPR Podcast: Can healthy eating reverse some cancers? Available here.Dana Farber Podcast: Sugar and Cancer. Available here.Briefly summarize the podcast you have selected then discuss whether or not you believe that dieting can reverse cancer or if dieting impacts your risk of cancer. Justify your response.Name two (2) similarities and two (2) differences between mitosis and meiosis I and II. Next state three (3) benefits of genetic variation which result from meiosis. Which benefit do you believe is most significant? Justify your response.Read the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology article entitled, Mitosis at a Glance which is found here. Next summarize three (3) major points made in the article then define the term cancer in your own words. Lastly, describe what occurs when there are problems during mitosis then provide an example of a disease that results from abnormal mitosis

1. A researcher makes the following statement at a conference: “in our study, we examined whether the quality of light has an effect on the rate of vertical growth in tomato plants”. Is this statement a hypothesis or a prediction? Briefly justify your answer.

2. What is the independent variable in the statement provided in question #1? Briefly explain why.

3. At that same conference, the researcher provides the following statement: “In our experiments, we expect that tomato plants grown under red light will grow taller than tomato plants grown under green light”. Is this statement a hypothesis or a prediction? Briefly explain your answer.

4. According to the phylogeny shown below, choose all the options that indicate a monophyletic group (attached)