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17 Cards in this Set
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embryonic stem cells
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ASC
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adult stem cells
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CBE
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Cord Blood-derived embryonic like stem cells
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Pluripotent
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can become any/all cell types except for tissue needed to support fetus ( placenta
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Differentiation
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specialization of cells
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Blastocyst
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inner cell mass where stem cells are made.
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Totipotent
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all of the cell types needed to grow up whole fetus .
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nervous system diseases
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Lou Gehrig, parkisnon's, multiple sclerosis
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Multipotent
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cells that are not fully differentiated and can turn to some but not all types of cells.
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Hematopietic stem cells
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can make different type of blood cell only
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Therapeutic cloning
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nucleus of an egg is removed and replaced with the nucleus of a somatic cell - which then produces lines of stem cells
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somatic cell
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all body cells except for the sex and germ
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Somatic cell nuclear transfer ( SCNT)
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process use for therapeutic cloning
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Vitro fertilization (IVF)
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left over embryos from mother
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Controversial reasons
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they are in a enviorment not normal for them, different signal that might affect them, they divid indefinitely ( something cancer dose)
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Bioactive compound
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is a compound that will show a specific biological effect on the survival growth or reproduction of another living organism>
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Bioassay
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its a control experiment on bioactive compounds
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