One use of methotrexate is as a chemotherapy (chemical drug) to treat certain types of cancer. There are many kinds of cancers that affect different cell types in your body.
However, a unifying idea in cancer is that cells from your own body become mis-regulated and exhibit unchecked proliferation.
Methotrexate inhibits enzymes involved in nucleotide biosynthesis and can directly inhibit the synthesis of thymidine.
Reduces levels of thymidine nucleotides may especially affect rapidly dividing cells, like cancer cells, because _____ is directly impacted.
(Note - directly impacted means the output of these process are directly changed by reduced thymidine levels. Ultimately, and indirectly, all of these processes could be affected). Group of answer choices
A. Carbohydrate
B. Breakdown DNA
C. Replication RNA
D. Transcription RNA
E. Translation