Totipotency

Totipotency

The capacity of a nucleus to direct events through all the stages in development and therefore produce a normal adult.

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Having the potentiality of forming all the types of cells in the body. The property of somatic cells to be induced to undergo regeneration. The diploid zygote formed at ...

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Plants; Plant pathology

The concept that even specialized cells contain all of the genetic information for an organism and, therefore, any cell should be able to regenerate into any tissue or into an ...

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Health care; Cancer treatment

Having to do with cells that are able to develop into any type of cell found in the body.

totipotency

Archaeology; Human evolution

The capacity of a nucleus to direct events through all the stages in development and therefore produce a normal adult.

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Agriculture; Rice science

Potential of cells or tissues to form all cell types and/or to regenerate a plant.

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Sufficient to form entire organism. The zygote is totipotent; not demonstrated for any vertebrate stem cell.

interstitial wear

Archaeology; Human evolution

See interproximal wear.

one gene-one enzyme hypothesis

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The hypothesis, based on Beadle and Tatum's studies in biochemical genetics, that each gene controls the synthesis of one enzyme.

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Archaeology; Human evolution

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Archaeology; Human evolution

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euchromatin

Archaeology; Human evolution

Chromatin that is condensed during division but becomes uncoiled during interphase.

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