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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"
Definition of Totipotence
1. Noun. Totipotency. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Totipotence
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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