Final answer:
A pancreatic beta cell can only divide and produce other beta cells, and is therefore classified as unipotent. Unipotent cells are capable of creating only one cell type, distinct from totipotent, pluripotent, and multipotent cells, which have a greater range of differentiation potential.
Step-by-step explanation:
If you isolate a pancreatic beta cell and put it in the proper growth conditions, it will divide by mitosis and produce new beta cells, but it will not produce pancreatic alpha cells or pancreatic cells that release digestive enzymes. The pancreatic beta cell is C. unipotent.
Unipotent cells have the capacity to divide and produce only one cell type, which, in the case of pancreatic beta cells, is more beta cells that secrete insulin. This is compared to totipotent cells, which can divide into any cell type, pluripotent cells that can form any cell type except for totipotent stem cells, and multipotent cells that can develop into a number of cells but are limited to a certain family. Since pancreatic beta cells can only differentiate into their own type, they are best described as unipotent.