Stem Cell Mindmap
- Created by: TStr03
- Created on: 03-10-18 18:24
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- Stem Cells
- Uses
- Stem Cell Treatments
- Replace damaged cells that cause diseases
- E.g. Diabetes
- Replace damaged cells that cause diseases
- Plant Cloning
- Produce crops commercially and cheaply in short period of time
- Produce disease resistant plants
- Cuttings
- Cut branch off plant & remove lower leaves
- Plant stem in damp compost
- Plant hormones used to help stimulate development of new roots
- New plant grows
- Plant hormones used to help stimulate development of new roots
- Plant stem in damp compost
- Cut branch off plant & remove lower leaves
- Help protect rare plants/plants with special properties
- Therapeutic Cloning
- Process that produces embryo with same genes as patient
- Stem cells taken from embryo have same DNA as patient
- Patient won't reject stem cells or body cells made from stem cells
- Stem cells taken from embryo have same DNA as patient
- Process that produces embryo with same genes as patient
- Stem Cell Treatments
- Location
- Plant Meristems
- Where plant stem cells are located
- Can differentiate into all types of plant cell throughout plant's life
- Allows plants to continue growing all their lives
- Can differentiate into all types of plant cell throughout plant's life
- Where plant stem cells are located
- Embryos
- Produce all types of cell that would make up an organism
- Embryonic stem cells can differentiate into most cell types
- Produce all types of cell that would make up an organism
- Bone Marrow
- Where stem cells in human adults are created
- Differentiate into fewer cell types than embryonic stem cells
- Used to replace dying cells & damaged tissues
- Differentiate into fewer cell types than embryonic stem cells
- Where stem cells in human adults are created
- Plant Meristems
- Disadvantage Embryonic Stem Cells
- Viral Infections
- Risk that stem cell transplanting could transfer viral infections
- Ethical Issues
- People believe that life begins at conception
- View embryo as alive
- View use of stem cells as 'killing' the embryo
- View embryo as alive
- People believe that life begins at conception
- Viral Infections
- Definition
- Undifferentiated cells that can differentiate to perform a specific function in the body
- Uses
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