TOTIPOTENCY

totipotency, totipotence

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

totipotency (uncountable)

(biology) The ability of a cell to produce differentiated cells upon division

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

3 April 2025

WHOLE

(noun) an assemblage of parts that is regarded as a single entity; “how big is that part compared to the whole?”; “the team is a unit”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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