Most continuously varying characteristics are both polygenic and influenced by environmental factors, and these characteristics are said to be multifactorial. 

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

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#Unit 5. Developmental Biology

If a stem cell divides asymmetrically, produce two types of cells (a stem cell & a developmentally committed cell) are produced at each division, is called the single stem cell asymmetry.

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Cell potency is a cell’s ability to differentiate into other cell types. Stem cell has the power, or potency, to produce many different types of differentiated cells.

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The potency of a cell is an intrinsic property and is greater than or equal to its fate. Potency is described as the gene activation potential within a cell which begins with – 

Totipotency, Pluripotency, Multipotency  and finally Unipotency.

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Totipotency

the ability of a single cell to divide and produce all of the differentiated cells in an organism (embryonic and extra embryonic cells).

Eg- spores and zygotes 

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Pluripotency A stem cell that has the potential to differentiate into any of three germ layers(endoderm , mesoderm & ectoderm). Eg-all embryonic cells