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    Fantastic Voyage: Final Voiceover Script

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    This document provides a summary of how cells normally divide and can sometimes go wrong to form cancer. It explains that cells contain DNA and chromosomes that direct their function, but cells have a limit on divisions due to telomeres. Sometimes a cell's Ras protein is activated, allowing unlimited division and formation of tumors that explore the body, requiring chemotherapy to stop division and defeat the cancer, though chemotherapy also damages healthy cells.

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    Fantastic Voyage: Final Voiceover Script

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    This document provides a summary of how cells normally divide and can sometimes go wrong to form cancer. It explains that cells contain DNA and chromosomes that direct their function, but cells have a limit on divisions due to telomeres. Sometimes a cell's Ras protein is activated, allowing unlimited division and formation of tumors that explore the body, requiring chemotherapy to stop division and defeat the cancer, though chemotherapy also damages healthy cells.

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    This document provides a summary of how cells normally divide and can sometimes go wrong to form cancer. It explains that cells contain DNA and chromosomes that direct their function, but cells have a limit on divisions due to telomeres. Sometimes a cell's Ras protein is activated, allowing unlimited division and formation of tumors that explore the body, requiring chemotherapy to stop division and defeat the cancer, though chemotherapy also damages healthy cells.

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    Fantastic Voyage: Final Voiceover Script

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    Polly Gwinnett
    This document provides a summary of how cells normally divide and can sometimes go wrong to form cancer. It explains that cells contain DNA and chromosomes that direct their function, but cells have a limit on divisions due to telomeres. Sometimes a cell's Ras protein is activated, allowing unlimited division and formation of tumors that explore the body, requiring chemotherapy to stop division and defeat the cancer, though chemotherapy also damages healthy cells.

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    Fantastic Voyage - Voiceover Script

    Written By

    Polly Gwinnett
    1

    VOICEOVER:
    In our bodies, our cells total
    trillions,
    They multiply keeping us strong,
    They divide, and most do this
    perfectly,
    But sometimes a cell can go wrong,

    A cell, at its core, contains


    chromosomes,
    As humans, we have forty-six,
    And new cells must mirror this
    number,
    By adding no more or no less to the
    mix,

    Our DNA is condensed into


    Chromosomes,
    An entire two metres in fact!
    DNA tells the cell how to function,
    What its for, what it does, how it
    acts,

    But cells cant divide ad


    infinitum,
    They have a limit - their telomere;
    Which gets shorter with each new
    division,
    And signals an ending is near.

    Its telomere gone, the cell knows


    to die,
    You might say Off goes the
    switch,
    But sometimes a cell decides
    otherwise,
    Producing a protein that triggers a
    glitch.

    The proteins called Ras, and now


    the cell can divide
    Without stopping, the cells make a
    clump.
    And these masses are sometimes
    malignant
    Forming a tumor a cancerous lump.

    Cancer cells never just call it a


    day,
    Cancer cells divide more and more,
    (MORE)
    2

    VOICEOVER: (CONT'D)
    And not content with just making
    tumors,
    They have a habit of going off to
    explore.

    Chemotherapy interrupts their


    division,
    but singling out cells it cant do.
    Chemotherapy is a serious measure
    Because it damages the healthy
    cells too.

    But while temporary may be the


    damage,
    The cancer itself is defeated,
    As new cells do just as instructed
    and the glitch in the system?
    Deleted.

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