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All cells consist of a nucleus, all nucleus consist of 23 pairs of chromosomes and all chormosomes consist of many genes. Each of these gene carries a specific template to make specific proteins. These proteins are responsible for carring out many functions throughout your body.

As of right now you are composed of many, many cells. Each and everyone of the cells is structurally the same, but each one encodes different protiens. liver cells are responsible for encoding proteins important to liver functions and heart cells are important to make proteins important to heart function. It is also important to realize that just because a heart and a liver look different does not mean their cells look any different. it is the arrangement of those cells and that make them look different not the cells themselves.

Now when you were first created you were one cell(called a zygote). This one cell was excatly like every cell you have in your body right now, except for one difference it had not limitations. it had the ability to encode any protein, it had the POTENTIAL to become anythining. After several cell divisions some cells became fated, meaning some of their genes were turned off so they could only make certain proteins. Ie, certain cells were fated to become heart cells so all the genes unrelated to heart functions were turned off.

To this day we still do not know how out genes turn on and turn off, but if were ever were able to figure it out we could solve each and every disease out there. it is the most important next step science has to take.

But to answer your question, embryonic stem cells are "better" because none of their genes are turned off so they can become any type of cell and encode every protein, while adult stem cells are much more limited.

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