what is totipotency

Answer Posted / kk pandey

Unlike the animal cells,the plant cells have got the capacity
to generate a new plant from a single cell,this capacity of
plant is called as Totipotency.

In animals, only a particular stage of embryonic cells have
capacity to generate new animal, and this ability of animals
is called Pluripotency.

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