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Differentiated cancer
Cancer: A cancer in which the cells are mature and look like cells in the tissue from it arose. Differentiated cancers tend to be decidedly less aggressive than undifferentiated cancers composed of immature cells
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- Contig Contiguous sequence of DNA created by assembling overlapping sequenced fragments of a chromosome. A group of…
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