Re: Non-Specialized cell

[alstonchris@netscape.net]

I would have thought that stem cells were the least specialized cells.



Cheers

cja





>>From the 4th Edition of Gollnick (2000), Page 90,

>

>"The last criterion, unspecialized, needs further

>comment. In the biological sense, this means a cell

>which is capable of specialization, at some future

>time, into one of several different .adult. cell

>types. An example might be one of the immature

>blood cells. Many types of blood cells are .born.

>unspecialized. Depending on the feedback signal

>received long after they are formed, they can choose

>to .grow up. and mature into lymphocytes, or different

>types of granulocytes. Probably the most unspecialized

>human cell is a fertilized ovum. From this single

>cell, daughter cells develop into such widely

>different mature cells as bone, brain, blood, and

>fingernails."



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