what is totipotency
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The inherent capacity of a cell to divide as well as
differentiate to form a whole organism is known as totipotency
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Answer / pinga
it is the ability of a cell to produce whole organism
celld totipotency
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Answer / poorani
The ability of a cell to differentiate and proliferate into
a whole organism is known as totipotency. it will be upto
the stage of 32cells(blastocyst). upto blastocyst the cells
are having totipotency . After blastocyst,the
differentiating cells become pluripotent later become
multipotent.
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Answer / vandana
it is the inherent capacity of a cell to divide &
differentiate to form a whole organism.Upto
the stage of 32cells(blastocyst). upto blastocyst the cells
are having totipotency . After blastocyst,the
differentiating cells become pluripotent later become
multipotent.
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Answer / ravi sastra
"it is the ability of the cell to develop n express it self
in to new cells or tissue"
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Answer / kk pandey
Unlike the animal cells,the plant cells have got the capacity
to generate a new plant from a single cell,this capacity of
plant is called as Totipotency.
In animals, only a particular stage of embryonic cells have
capacity to generate new animal, and this ability of animals
is called Pluripotency.
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Answer / rameswar
It is ability of cell to develop in to whole organism by
means of cell division.
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Answer / chris, e. o.
It is the ability of a cell to develop into a new cell with
similar characteristics
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Answer / arabinda samanta
totipotency is the total potency present in a cell to
develop a whole individual organism.
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