Question: Cancer is a genetic disorder. How does cancer differ from most other genetic disorders? Choose on…

Cancer is a genetic disorder. How does cancer differ from most
other genetic disorders?

Choose one of the following:

A. Cancer is always caused by one or more mutations in genes
that are only expressed in one type of tissue. Most other genetic
disorders involve genes that are expressed throughout the body.

B. All cancers are the result of epigenetic changes, whereas
most other genetic disorders are the result of changes in the DNA
sequence.

C. Most genetic disorders involve genes that rarely mutate. Most
cancers are the result of mutations in rapidly mutating genes,
which explains why cancer is so common.

D. Most genetic disorders are inherited through germ cells from
parents. Most cancers are, to some extent, the result of mutations
in somatic cells that occur during an organism/’s lifetime.

E. Mutations that create defective receptors on the cell surface
lead to cancer, but not to other genetic disorders.