種子的信仰

細胞分化是一個生物專有名詞，相關的解釋如下：





(一) Cellular differentiation       http://www.biologydaily.com/biology/Differentiation



        Cellular differentiation is a concept from developmental biology describing

        the process by which cells acquire a "type". The morphology of a cell may

        change dramatically during differentiation, but the genetic material remains

        the same, with few exceptions.



        A cell that is able to differentiate into many cell types is known as  pluripotent.

        These cells are called stem cells in animals and meristematic cells in higher

        plants.



        A cell that is able to differentiate into all cell types is known as  totipotent.

        In mammals, only the zygote and early embryonic cells are totipotent, 

        while in plants, many differentiated cells can become totipotent with simple

        laboratory techniques.



                morphology(形態學)

                pluripotent(多潛能)

                        stem cell(幹細胞)

                        meristematic cell(分生細胞)

                totipotent(全潛能細胞)

                        embroyonic cell(胚胎細胞)



(二) differentiation                    http://cdict.giga.net.tw/q/differentiation

3: (biology) 

     the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function; 

     "cell differentiation in the developing embryo" 

      [syn: {specialization}, {specialisation}]





(三)細胞分化    http://atp.life.nctu.edu.tw/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=115

        定義：

        在多細胞生物中，源自於單細胞(受精卵)的細胞集團中會出現形態、細胞群體化

        的現象，也就是隨著細胞分裂的進行，因某些特定的遺傳基因開始作用或增幅的

        結果，而使得細胞具有某種特徵。

-----