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What is the exect difference between totipotency, pluripotency, multipotency?

April 26, 2017Biology difference Mathematics multipotency pluripotency totipotency

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What is the exect difference between totipotency, pluripotency, multipotency?

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Totipotency is the ability of all living cells potentially to regenerate whole new individuals eg cloning Pluripotency is the potential of a cell to develop into more than one type of mature cell, depending on environment. A pluripotent cell can create all cell types except for extra embryonic tissue. eg, a stem cell which can differentiate into 3 germ layers i.e. endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm. Multipotency is the ability a cell to develop into closely related family of cells. eg a blood stem cell can develop into types of blood cells like erythrocytes, leucocytes etc but cannot develop into any other kind of cell i.e germ layer cell.