
1. What is the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic apoptotic pathways?
2. What is one technique you can use to detect apoptosis, and what feature(s) of apoptosis does it detect?
Questions about the paper:
1. What is the central objective/question of the paper?
2. Can you briefly describe the background/rationale for the study?
3. In this paper they used cell culture for many experiments. List two different cell lines used and explain why they chose those.
4. What is miR-34a and how does it fit into their hypothetical model?
5. In your opinion, what was one strength of the paper?
6. In your opinion, what was one weakness of the paper?

