AMU Medical AMU Solved Paper-1997

  • question_answer
    A pure cell line of human cancer cells used for cultivation of viruses are called

    A)  malignant cells

    B)  myeloma

    C)  HeLa cells        

    D) none of these.

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

    : HeLa is a strain of cells that have been continuously cultured from a patients carcinoma of the cervix. The cultured cells are used to study the growth of other cells including viruses. They have been maintained in culture since 1951 and are named after the patient Henrietta Lacks, from whom they originated. Myeloma are the cells present in the bone marrow of patients with multiple myeloma. Malignant cells are cancerous cells.


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