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Unipotent vs Pluripotent - What's the difference?

unipotent | pluripotent |

Unipotent is a see also of pluripotent.


As adjectives the difference between unipotent and pluripotent

is that unipotent is (biology) having the capacity to develop into only one type of cell or tissue while pluripotent is able to develop into more than one mature cell or tissue type, but not all.

unipotent

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (biology) Having the capacity to develop into only one type of cell or tissue
  • (mathematics) Having a single idempotent element

    • Related terms

    * idempotent * nilpotent * nullipotent

    pluripotent

    English

    (wikipedia pluripotent)

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Able to develop into more than one mature cell or tissue type, but not all.
  • *2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 99:
  • *:As the embryo grows, ‘pluripotent ’ stem cells appear, which are limited in their potency.

    • Synonyms

    * pluripotential

    Related terms

    * pluripotency

    See also

    *multipotent *oligopotent *totipotent *unipotent