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Define the term stem cell in your own words

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It is an undifferentiated cell of a multicellular organism which is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type, and from which certain other kinds of cell arise by differentiation.
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Stem cell: Cells that can change into specialized cells and can divide to produce more stem cells.
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