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Give two important characteristic features of stem cells?

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1. They have the potential of growing and multiplying into an enormous number of the same type of cells by repeated mitosis.

2. They can be induced to become any other type of tissue with specific functions i.e. they can be induced to become a cardiac muscle, beta cells of pancreas (which produces insulin), special neurons in brain etc.


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