08-21-2015, 01:32 PM
(08-21-2015, 01:26 PM)oncemoreuntothejimbreech Wrote: A tumor does contain the full set of human DNA. The DNA is defective which is why it produces tumor cells instead of normal cells.
An example would be melanoma. Normal skin cells with normal and complete human DNA damaged by UV radiation so much the normal DNA mutates to create skin cancer cells instead of more normal skin cells.
Actually in most if not all cancers, when the cell that has been damaged, and goes to split, it creates some cells with more chromosomes than normal and others with less than normal. It is these cells that go haywire.
That being said it is still human DNA, just damaged.
The better question is whether the OP believes that Downs Syndrome affected children are not human...You know since they have a different amount of Chromosomes than a typical human.
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