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PRONUNCIATION OF TOTIPOTENCY

totipotency  [təʊˈtɪpətənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOTIPOTENCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Totipotency is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES TOTIPOTENCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cell potency

Cell potency is a cell's ability to differentiate into other cell types. The more cell types a cell can differentiate into, the greater its potency. Potency is also described as the gene activation potential within a cell which like a continuum begins with totipotency to designate a cell with the most differentiation potential, pluripotency, multipotency, oligopotency and finally unipotency. Potency is taken from the Latin term "potens" which means "having power." Pluripotent, embryonic stem cells originate as inner mass cells within a blastocyst. These stem cells can become any tissue in the body, excluding a placenta. Only the morula's cells are totipotent, able to become all tissues and a placenta.

Definition of totipotency in the English dictionary

The definition of totipotency in the dictionary is the ability of an animal cell to differentiate and form a new individual, tissue, organ, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOTIPOTENCY


accountancy
əˈkaʊntənsɪ
adjutancy
ˈædʒətənsɪ
captaincy
ˈkæptənsɪ
chieftaincy
ˈtʃiːftənsɪ
competency
ˈkɒmpɪtənsɪ
consistency
kənˈsɪstənsɪ
constancy
ˈkɒnstənsɪ
consultancy
kənˈsʌltənsɪ
expectancy
ɪkˈspɛktənsɪ
impotency
ˈɪmpətənsɪ
inappetency
ɪnˈæpətənsɪ
inconsistency
ˌɪnkənˈsɪstənsɪ
inconstancy
ɪnˈkɒnstənsɪ
intermittency
ˌɪntəˈmɪtənsɪ
latency
ˈleɪtənsɪ
militancy
ˈmɪlɪtənsɪ
omnipotency
ɒmˈnɪpətənsɪ
patency
ˈpeɪtənsɪ
plenipotency
plɛˈnɪpətənsɪ
potency
ˈpəʊtənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOTIPOTENCY

totemism
totemist
totemistic
totemite
toter
totes
tother
totient
totipalmate
totipalmation
totipotent
totitive
totted
totter
totterer
tottering
totteringly
tottery
tottie
totting

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOTIPOTENCY

advertency
agency
appetency
currency
efficiency
emergency
frequency
inadvertency
incompetency
inexistency
insistency
penitency
persistency
prepotency
regency
remittency
renitency
subpotency
tendency
transparency

Synonyms and antonyms of totipotency in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «totipotency» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOTIPOTENCY

Find out the translation of totipotency to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of totipotency from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «totipotency» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

全能性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

totipotencialidad
570 millions of speakers

English

totipotency
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

totipotency
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

شمول الوسع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

тотипотентность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

totipotency
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

totipotency
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

totipotence
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Totipotency
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Totipotenz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

分化全能性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

totipotency
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Totipotency
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

totipotency
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

totipotency
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पोटगीपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

totipotency
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

totipotenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

totipotency
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

тотипотентність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

totipotență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

totipotency
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

totipotency
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

totipotency
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

totipotency
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of totipotency

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOTIPOTENCY»

The term «totipotency» is normally little used and occupies the 139.176 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOTIPOTENCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «totipotency» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «totipotency» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about totipotency

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOTIPOTENCY»

Discover the use of totipotency in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to totipotency and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Molecular Genetics of Plant Development
Regeneration and Totipotency Plants, but not most animals, have the remarkable capacity to regenerate from vegetative parts. Many terminally differentiated plant organs, tissues, and cells retain their capacity to regenerate. For example, a ...
Stephen Herbert Howell, 1998
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Embryogenesis in Angiosperms: A Developmental and ...
Totipotency and somatic embryogenesis The discovery of somatic embryogenesis is ineluctably tied to the demonstration of totipotency of plant cells. As generally applied to biological systems, a cell is defined as totipotent if it can regenerate ...
Valayamghat Raghavan, 1986
3
Genetics: Classical to Modern
Cellular totipotency: Diagrammatic representation of cellular totipotency in carrot as demonstrated by Steward (1963). Fig. 1 A-B. Cell types: A. Prokaryotic cell, B. Eukaryotic. (3) Since the external environment acts directly, the organism may ...
P. K. Gupta, 2007
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Cell and Molecular Biology of the Testis
Rather, it may be that genes that are not required for the differentiation of a particular cell type become irreversibly repressed in that cell type, thus eliminating genetic totipotency. The experiments of Gurdon (1962) and others demonstrated that ...
Claude Desjardins, Larry L. Ewing, 1993
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Plants in Action: Adaptation in Nature, Performance in ...
This phenomenon is fotipotciiiy, an amazing developmental plasticity that sets plant cells apart from most of their animal counterparts, and was first demonstrated by Steward and Reinert in the l9.->()s. Often totipotency is revealed when cells or ...
Brian James Atwell, Paul E. Kriedemann, Colin G. N. Turnbull, 1999
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Morphogenesis in Plant Tissue Cultures
This cell doctrine coupled with the fact that all cells, except gametes, in a multicellular organism possess an identical genetic blueprint as the fertilized egg from which they originated, have led to the formulation of the concept of totipotency.
Woong-Young Soh, Sant Saran Bhojwani, 1999
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Transgenic Plants and Crops
The capability of cultured cells or protoplasts to proliferate and organize into tissues and eventually develop into a whole plant is termed totipotency. The term competence refers to the capability of a cell or cell clusters to respond to an ...
George C. Khachatourians, Y. H. Hui, Ralph Scorza, 2002
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The Human Embryonic Stem Cell Debate: Science, Ethics, and ...
The scientific distinction between totipotency and pluripotency carries ethical weight: if cells are totipotent they have dignity and may not be destroyed; if they are merely pluripotent they do not have the same dignity and can be destroyed.
Suzanne Holland, Karen Lebacqz, Laurie Zoloth, 2001
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The Linacre Quarterly
In fact, with subtle linguistic retouching — it is unfortunately used also by Catholic experts — even the cells of embryos have acquired — only literally — the same and identical totipotency of the entire zygote (see next note below). So, we have:  ...
‎2008
10
Plant Tissue Culture: Theory and Practice: Theory and Practice
This is a serious limitation in the application of cellular totipotency for commercial propagation of plants. The complex multicellular explants used to initiate cultures are highly heterogeneous with regard to the morphogenic potential of their ...
S.S. Bhojwani, M.K. Razdan, 1996

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOTIPOTENCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term totipotency is used in the context of the following news items.
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General Science Bullet - Biotechnology - Capsule 4
Stem Cell research: Stem cells are undifferentiated cells with the potency to divide and take form of almost any other cell (phenomenon termed as totipotency). «PaGaLGuY, Jul 15»
2
African Free Minds Converted to Enslaved Minds
Totipotency implies that, once having regressed into intense and elemental responses within oneself, one is completely susceptible to being molded in character ... «Black Voice News, Feb 15»
3
Mystery Lingers Over STAP “Acid Bath” Stem Cells
... the creation of extraordinary stem cells (STAP or “stimulus triggered acquisition of totipotency” cells) from ordinary mature cells by stressing them with acid. «Bioscience Technology, Jan 15»
4
Plants not like us in making offspring
If human cells exhibited totipotency, it would mean that I could cut off a fingertip, provide it with the right conditions, and it would grow into a whole new me. «Tribune-Review, Sep 14»
5
Lost in translation? Not when it comes to control of gene expression …
Induction of totipotency (as well as the pluripotency characteristic of embryonic stem cells) requires dramatic changes in gene expression. To date, investigations ... «Phys.Org, May 14»
6
Are young sperms really sperms?
You know that in your first hours of life, cells in the nascent embryo mature into skin, heart, gut, or any type of cell – called totipotency. New research shows that ... «TheHealthSite, May 14»
7
Stunning Adult Stem Cell Developments Evoke Hope, Caution
The reprogrammed cells showed “totipotency,” or the ability to turn into embryonic and placental tissue, but did not on their own have the ability to be grown for ... «Aleteia, Feb 14»
8
A Bit of Stress Yields Stem-Cell Surprise
"To my mind that makes them totipotent," said Dr. Vacanti, whose research over the past 15 years laid the groundwork for the latest findings. Totipotency is the ... «Wall Street Journal, Jan 14»
9
How the Mosses That Got Run Over By a Glacier Survived Their …
Botanists call this ability "totipotency", and while mosses and their friends have it, most "higher" plants do not. So it's not necessary for moss spores to survive a ... «Scientific American, Nov 13»
10
Biologists Revive 400-Year-Old Plants
Regeneration of Little Ice Age bryophytes emerging from a polar glacier with implications of totipotency in extreme environments. PNAS, published online before ... «Sci-News.com, May 13»

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