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What is totipotency?

What is totipotency? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (biology) The ability of a cell to produce differentiated cells upon division
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These nuclei, although from differentiated cells, had therefore retained totipotency.
According to classical embryology, during normal development of a human, the stage of totipotency is limited to the fertilised egg cell and the daughter cells arising during the initial stages of division.
Somatic embryogenesis is an example of totipotency and is used as a model system for studying embryogenesis.
This phenomenon is due to the totipotency of plant cells when they are not highly differentiated.
Their totipotency differentiates them from differentiated cells and puts them closer to the embryo.
In laboratory language, the latter goal is to avoid totipotency while achieving pluripotency.

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