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Cell C.,Differ,Meios
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Cyclin | any of a number of proteins associated with the cycle of cell division that are thought to initiate certain processes of mitosis. |
Growth Factor | a naturally occurring substance capable of stimulating cellular growth |
Apoptosis | the death of cells that occurs as a normal and controlled part of an organism's growth or development. |
Cancer | A disease in which abnormal cells divide uncontrollably and destroy body tissue. |
Tumor | a swelling of a part of the body, generally without inflammation, caused by an abnormal growth of tissue, whether benign or malignant. |
Embryo | an unborn or unhatched offspring in the process of development |
Differentiation | a cell becomes specialized in order to perform a specific function |
totipotent | of an immature or stem cell) capable of giving rise to any cell type or (of a blastomere) a complete embryo. |
blastocyst | a mammalian blastula in which some differentiation of cells has occurred |
pluripotent | (of an immature or stem cell) capable of giving rise to several different cell types |
Stem Cell | an undifferentiated cell of a multicellular organism that is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type, and from which certain other kinds of cell arise by differentiation |
multipotent | cells that can develop into more than one cell type |