[BIOLOGY 151] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (22 pages long!)
29 Nov 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Cells are bags of protein that make other bags of. What are stem cells? tiate into cells with specialized functions. Stem cells are a cell type whose job is to divide and make more stem cells or differen- Stem cells can undergo cell division and they can become many different kinds of. What are the differences between terminally differentiated cells and stem cells? cells. Terminally differentiated cells cannot undergo cell division, they cant differentiate fur- ther and they perform speci c functions. Totipotent: fertilized egg; they can make any type of cell including extra embryonic. Pluripotent: from inner cell mass of blastocyst; they can make any type of cell exclud- What are the different potencies of stem cells? tissue ing extra embryonic tissue ized cells. Multipotent: in human body; adult stem cells that can only make a subset of special- What types of stem cells are there? grammed to be in an embryonic state.
