Imagine that you are a graduate student working in a cancer lab. You accidentally mix unlabeled tubes of carcinoma cells with tubes of normal epithelial cells. Which of the following is not a possible strategy to allow you to distinguish which tubes contain carcinoma cells? A.) Monitor telomere length over time during multiple cell divisions.
B.) Plate the cells in culture and look for the culture that stops dividing once a monolayer is reached.
C.) Monitor the rate of cell division.
D.) Suspend the cells in liquid agar culture and monitor which culture continues to grow.