Caspases

are so named because they contain a key cysteine residue in the catalytic site and selectively cleave proteins at sites just C-terminal to aspartate residues

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Progenitor cells are not capable of unlimited self-renewal; rather, they have the capacity to divide only a few times before differentiating.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Although limited but Progenitor cells proliferation serves to amplify the pool of progenitors before they terminally differentiate.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Cells within progenitor pool can mature along different but related paths of specification.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

 Precursor cell, is widely used to denote any ancestral cell type (either stem cell or progenitor cell) of a particular lineage; it is often used when such distinctions do not matter or are not known.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Some adult stem cells, such as spermatogonia, are referred to as unipotent stem cells because they function in the organism to generate only one cell type.

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

Multipotent adult stem cells play major roles in organisms with high regenerative capabilities, such as hydra, axolotl, and zebrafish. one cell type.