Question

What property is unique to stem cells?

Answer 1

Stem cells can turn into any type of specified cell such as tissue cell or brain cells or blood cells etc.

Answer 2

Answer:

The correct answer would be cell potency.

Cell potency refers to the ability of a cell to divide and differentiate into other types of cells.

Different types of stem cells have different levels of cell potency; totipotency,  pluripotency, multipotency, oligopotency, and unipotency.

These cells can divide and renew themselves for long periods of time.  

For example, embryonic stem cells are pluripotent in nature that is, they can divide and differentiate any of the 3 germ cells, adult stem cells are generally multipotent in nature, for example, progenitor cells can give rise to different types of blood cells et cetera.