Associations to the word «Totipotency»

Wiktionary

TOTIPOTENCY, noun. (biology) The ability of a cell to produce differentiated cells upon division

Dictionary definition

TOTIPOTENCY, 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".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne