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- noun biology The ability of a
cell to producedifferentiated cells upondivision
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- noun the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part
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Examples
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Even today in various quarters, the discussions continue, with new embryological details like twinning and chimerization impinging upon the debate, and new conceptual questions arising from the intricate biology surrounding totipotency and pluripotency.
Archive 2008-05-11 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Even today in various quarters, the discussions continue, with new embryological details like twinning and chimerization impinging upon the debate, and new conceptual questions arising from the intricate biology surrounding totipotency and pluripotency.
Do Embryos Have Souls? de Brantigny........................ 2008
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The early embryo retains its totipotency, he concluded.
Epigenesis and Preformationism Maienschein, Jane 2005
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Toscanini, Arturo totalitarianism totem totemism totem pole to the manner born totipotency touch and go
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At this stage the cells are just at the very beginning of cellular differentiation and are said to be totipotent (See totipotency).
blastula 2002
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T-cell telomere therapeutic cloning therapeutic virus totipotency toxic waste transgenic species transposon
21. Life Sciences 2002
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What factors can affect a cell when it loses its totipotency (when its fate becomes determined)?
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The first week of human pre-embryo development is characterized by the induction of totipotency and then pluripotency.
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Now, the Catholic Church believes that any fertilized ovum is a human life -- all it takes in their definition of human life, apparently, is a full set of human chromosomes and the totipotency that these fertilized cells possess.
qms commented on the word totipotency
God give us the gift of the wit to see
How laden with magic incipiency
Is each life begun
And warmed by the sun
At the moment of perfect totipotency.
April 2, 2019