SSC CGL 17 Aug 2021 Shift 1 Paper

Totipotency is defined as the ability of a single cell to divide and produce all the differentiated cells in an organism. In other words, totipotency is the cell characteristic in which the potential for forming all the cell types in the adult organism is retained. The concept of totipotency was first introduced by German biologist Han Driesch in the $1890\mathit{s}$.