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the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part
animal cells lose their totipotency at an early stage in embryonic development
How To Use totipotency In A Sentence
- Totipotency The ability shown by many living cells to form all the types of tissues that constitute the mature organism.
- animal cells lose their totipotency at an early stage in embryonic development
- AIM: The key of the human embryonic stem cell culture is to guarantee the totipotency and inhibit spontaneous differentiation.