Definition of Totipotence

1. Noun. 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"

Exact synonyms: Totipotency
Generic synonyms: Ability
Derivative terms: Totipotent, Totipotent

Definition of Totipotence

1. Noun. Totipotency. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Totipotence

totemist
totemistic
totemists
totemite
totemites
totems
toter
toters
totes
tother
totient
totients
toting
totipalmate
totipalmi
totipotence (current term)
totipotencies
totipotency
totipotent
totipotent cell
totipotential protoplasm
totitive
totitives
totiviridae
totivirus
toto caelo
totorve
totread
tots
tottari

Literary usage of Totipotence

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Unity of the Organism; Or, The Organismal Conception of Life by William Emerson Ritter (1919)
"The Theory of totipotence This theory is the other side of the shield, the side which looks as though the cells of the early embryo are ..."

2. Bryn Mawr College Monographs by Bryn Mawr College (1902)
"... of the egg have the power of producing any part of the embryo — an idea that is more accurately expressed at the present time by the word totipotence. ..."

3. The Vitality and Organization of Protoplasm by Edmund Montgomery (1904)
"This reduction of artificial fragments to germinal totipotence occurs more readily when they are derived from lower stages of ontogenetic and phylogenetic ..."

4. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1922)
"On the one hand it has been said that the totipotence of any one of the first four cleavage cells proves that all of these cells are alike and that they ..."

5. Heredity and Environment in the Development of Men by Edwin Grant Conklin (1915)
"On the one hand it is said that the totipotence of any one of the first four cleavage cells proves that all of these cells are alike and that they have not ..."

6. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1906)
"It seems probable, however, that the observed totipotence of fragments of Medusa eggs (Maas, Zoja) is due not to the lack of differentiation in the egg ..."

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