totipotence

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Noun1.totipotence - 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"
totipotency
ability - the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment
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to·ti·po·ten·cy

, totipotence
n. totipotencia, habilidad de una célula de regenerarse o desarrollarse en otro tipo de célula.
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Thus, Smith refers to such key terms as prosthesis, proto-technicity, exodarwinism, de-specialization, motricity, inscription, maker's knowledge, and totipotence. In his discussion of prosthesis and Deleuze's claim that all technologies are "prosthetic" extensions of "the body," he argues that "technology is primarily corporeal...
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Their relative totipotence in echinoderms is manifested by thei r ability to proliferate actively during regeneration (Candia Carnevali et al., 1997; present study) and to transdifferentiate into free coelomocytes or myocytes (Vanden Bossche and Jangoux, 1976; Dolmatov et al., 1996; respectively).
Maintaining the Line of Defense: Regeneration of Cuvierian Tubules in the Sea Cucumber Holothuria forskali (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea)
La table ronde debuta par une conference du Abed, qui expliqua le protocole suivit par l'equipe Ecossaise, en meltant l'emphase sur leur principale realisation qui est la remise a l'etat de totipotence une cellule deja differenciee ainsi que le principales applications medico-pharmaceutiques et biotechnologiques de la manipulation genetique.
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