Difference between Totipotent and pluripotent stem cells?

Answer Posted / ahana kar

The main difference between Totipotient and Pluripotent
stem cells is that totipotency is a characterictic property
of allmost all plant cells in which a single cell have the
ability to divide rapidly and give rise to a differentiated
cells of a plant where as Pluripotency is characterised in
aninal or human cells, and not in plant cells

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