what is totipotency

Answer Posted / poorani

The ability of a cell to differentiate and proliferate into
a whole organism is known as totipotency. it will be upto
the stage of 32cells(blastocyst). upto blastocyst the cells
are having totipotency . After blastocyst,the
differentiating cells become pluripotent later become
multipotent.

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