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Yes stems cells can become any cell in the body.
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Yes, stem cells are unspecialized cells that have the potential to develop into different types of specialized cells in the body. They can divide and replicate to produce more stem cells, or they can differentiate into specific cell types depending on the signals they receive from their environment.
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Unspecialized cells that become specialized when they mature are called?
Stem cells
Organelles found abundantly in cells in the meristems?
meristem cells are unspecialized cells,similer to our own stem cells in our bones that make red blood cells.
What is the difference between adult stem cells and an embryo stem cells?
An embryonic stem cell is young, undifferentiated, pluripotent, and unspecialized, so it can turn into any body cell. This makes it the most versatile option. Adult stems can change identity, but are not as versatile for research.
Why are stem cells so important in the medical field today?
Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into multiple types of cells. For example, embryonic stem cells can become any cell in the body and hematopoietic stem cells can become any blood cell (red blood cells, myeloid cells, and lymphocytes). They also possess the ability to renew themselves when dividing, meaning that when a stem cell divides, one daughter cell remains a stem cell while the other becomes more specialized. Therefore, the stem cell can theoretically generate an infinite amount of any type of body cells. However, an obstacle in utilizing stem cells is that though scientists have found ways to coax the stem cell to become different cell types, they have been unsuccessful to find a way to make stem cells produce a coherent organ. Meaning that though scientists can make liver cells from stem cells, they can't make an entire liver since the architecture of an entire organ is extremely complex. This is also the reason why we do not yet have laboratory-grown organs for transplantations purposes.
Which of following selections lists bones cells in the order from unspecialized stem cell to highly specialized mature bone cell?
The correct order is as follows: Mesenchymal stem cell - an unspecialized stem cell that can differentiate into various cell types, including bone cells. Osteoprogenitor cell - a partially differentiated cell that is committed to becoming a bone cell. Osteoblast - a bone-forming cell that synthesizes and secretes the matrix of bone. Osteocyte - a mature bone cell that maintains the structure and function of bone tissue.
What are unspecialized human cells called?
They are called stem cells.
Unspecialized cells that become specialized when they mature are called?
Stem cells
Organelles found abundantly in cells in the meristems?
meristem cells are unspecialized cells,similer to our own stem cells in our bones that make red blood cells.
What is the difference between adult stem cells and an embryo stem cells?
An embryonic stem cell is young, undifferentiated, pluripotent, and unspecialized, so it can turn into any body cell. This makes it the most versatile option. Adult stems can change identity, but are not as versatile for research.
Why are stem cells so important in the medical field today?
Stem cells have the ability to differentiate into multiple types of cells. For example, embryonic stem cells can become any cell in the body and hematopoietic stem cells can become any blood cell (red blood cells, myeloid cells, and lymphocytes). They also possess the ability to renew themselves when dividing, meaning that when a stem cell divides, one daughter cell remains a stem cell while the other becomes more specialized. Therefore, the stem cell can theoretically generate an infinite amount of any type of body cells. However, an obstacle in utilizing stem cells is that though scientists have found ways to coax the stem cell to become different cell types, they have been unsuccessful to find a way to make stem cells produce a coherent organ. Meaning that though scientists can make liver cells from stem cells, they can't make an entire liver since the architecture of an entire organ is extremely complex. This is also the reason why we do not yet have laboratory-grown organs for transplantations purposes.
Where all cells come from?
All cells come from a stem cell, which is an unspecialized cell that gives rise to a specific specialized cell, such as a blood cell. These cells differentiate and give rise to the various kinds of cells we have in our body.
Which of following selections lists bones cells in the order from unspecialized stem cell to highly specialized mature bone cell?
The correct order is as follows: Mesenchymal stem cell - an unspecialized stem cell that can differentiate into various cell types, including bone cells. Osteoprogenitor cell - a partially differentiated cell that is committed to becoming a bone cell. Osteoblast - a bone-forming cell that synthesizes and secretes the matrix of bone. Osteocyte - a mature bone cell that maintains the structure and function of bone tissue.
Which are areas of unspecialized cells in which mitosis produces new cells that are ready for differentiation?
Meristems
What is a unique property of stem cells is that they?
Stem cells differ from other kinds of cells in the body. All stem cells-regardless of their source-have three general properties: they are capable of dividing and renewing themselves for long periods; they are unspecialized; and they can give rise to specialized cell types.Stem cells are capable of dividing and renewing themselves for long periods. Unlike muscle cells, blood cells, or nerve cells-which do not normally replicate themselves-stem cells may replicate many times, or proliferate. A starting population of stem cells that proliferates for many months in the laboratory can yield millions of cells. If the resulting cells continue to be unspecialized, like the parent stem cells, the cells are said to be capable of long-term self-renewal.Scientists are trying to understand two fundamental properties of stem cells that relate to their long-term self-renewal:why can embryonic stem cells proliferate for a year or more in the laboratory without differentiating, but most non-embryonic stem cells cannot; andwhat are the factors in living organisms that normally regulate stem cell proliferation and self-renewal?Discovering the answers to these questions may make it possible to understand how cell proliferation is regulated during normal embryonic development or during the abnormal cell divisionthat leads to cancer. Such information would also enable scientists to grow embryonic and non-embryonic stem cells more efficiently in the laboratory.The specific factors and conditions that allow stem cells to remain unspecialized are of great interest to scientists. It has taken scientists many years of trial and error to learn to derive and maintain stem cells in the laboratory without them spontaneously differentiating into specific cell types. For example, it took two decades to learn how to grow human embryonic stem cells in the laboratory following the development of conditions for growing mouse stem cells. Therefore, understanding the signals in a mature organism that cause a stem cell population to proliferate and remain unspecialized until the cells are needed. Such information is critical for scientists to be able to grow large numbers of unspecialized stem cells in the laboratory for further experimentation.Stem cells are unspecialized. One of the fundamental properties of a stem cell is that it does not have any tissue-specific structures that allow it to perform specialized functions. For example, a stem cell cannot work with its neighbors to pump blood through the body (like a heart muscle cell), and it cannot carry oxygen molecules through the bloodstream (like a red blood cell). However, unspecialized stem cells can give rise to specialized cells, including heart muscle cells, blood cells, or nerve cells.Stem cells can give rise to specialized cells. When unspecialized stem cells give rise to specialized cells, the process is called differentiation. While differentiating, the cell usually goes through several stages, becoming more specialized at each step. Scientists are just beginning to understand the signals inside and outside cells that trigger each stem of the differentiation process. The internal signalsare controlled by a cell's genes, which are interspersed across long strands of DNA, and carry coded instructions for all cellular structures and functions. The external signals for cell differentiation include chemicals secreted by other cells, physical contact with neighboring cells, and certain molecules in the microenvironment. The interaction of signals during differentiation causes the cell's DNA to acquire epigeneticmarks that restrict DNA expression in the cell and can be passed on through cell division.Many questions about stem cell differentiation remain. For example, are the internal and external signals for cell differentiation similar for all kinds of stem cells? Can specific sets of signals be identified that promote differentiation into specific cell types? Addressing these questions may lead scientists to find new ways to control stem cell differentiation in the laboratory, thereby growing cells or tissues that can be used for specific purposes such as cell-based therapies or drug screening.Adult stem cells typically generate the cell types of the tissue in which they reside. For example, a blood-forming adult stem cell in the bone marrow normally gives rise to the many types of blood cells. It is generally accepted that a blood-forming cell in the bone marrow-which is called a hematopoietic stem cell-cannot give rise to the cells of a very different tissue, such as nerve cells in the brain. Experiments over the last several years have purported to show that stem cells from one tissue may give rise to cell types of a completely different tissue. This remains an area of great debate within the research community. This controversy demonstrates the challenges of studying adult stem cells and suggests that additional research using adult stem cells is necessary to understand their full potential as future therapies.
What are the types of stem cells?
There are five basic stem cells classifications there is embryonic stem cells, fetal stem cells. There are the Umbilical cord stem cells, placenta stem cells, and lastly there are adult stem cells.
What do stem cell look like?
Stem cells are unspecialized (= undifferentiated). This means that they lack distinctive form (morphology, shape) equipping them for some special purpose in the body. The above sounds a negative description, of what they are not like! More positively: stem cells are small and more or less spherical. Their role is to be pluripotential or even totipotential, which means able to develop into any one of a number of different types of specialized cell types.
Are fetal cells only source of stem cells?
There are 2 type of stem cells * embryonic stem cells * and adult stem cells fetal stem cells are grouped into the adult stem cell category
