Totipotency refers to:
A) The ability of a mammalian cell to develop into a differentiated cell.
B) The ability of a plant cell to accept foreign DNA.
C) The ability of a bacterial cell to express foreign DNA.
D) The ability of a plant or animal cell to produce all of the differentiated cells of the mature plant.
E) The ability of a mammalian cell to express all of the genes encoded by the genome.

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Totipotency refers to the ability of a single plant or animal cell to divide and differentiate into all of the cell types that make up a whole organism, including embryonic and extraembryonic tissues. This ability is present in early embryonic cells and some adult stem cells in plants and animals.

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