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What ability of individual stem cells is described by the term totipotent?

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Totipotent stem cells have the ability to develop into any kind of cell found in the human body.
When the sperm fertilizes the egg, creates the zygote which is the fist totipotent cell. After that, in the first cell divisions more totipotent cells are produced. Within several days, these totipotent cells produce even more totipotent cells and after four days the cells begin to specialize.
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