totipotent
pronunciation
How to pronounce totipotent in British English:
UK [təʊ'tɪpətənt]
How to pronounce totipotent in American English:
US [toʊ'tɪpətənt]
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- Adjective:
- having the ability to give rise to unlike cells
Word Origin
- totipotent (adj.)
- 1896, from Latin toti-, comb. form of totus "whole" (see total (adj.)) + potent. Perhaps immediately from German totipotent, which is attested by 1893. Related: Totipotency.
Example
- 1. Other angiosperm cultures based on totipotent cells could be adapted to similar ends .
- 2. The breakthrough came when they mixed cells together from very early stage rhesus monkey embryos , in a state known as totipotent , when they are able to give rise to a whole animal as well as the placenta and other life-sustaining tissues .
- 3. Germ potential is established after conception in a totipotent zygote and retained subsequently during development in blastomers of morula , cells form the inner cell mass of blastocyst , epiblast and population of primordial germ cells .