Stem cells

• What are stem cells?


  Undifferentiated cells
• What are embryonic stem cells?


  Stem cells found in early human embryos.
• Where are stem cells found in the adult body?

  Bone marrow
• What can stem cells do?


  They could cure dieseases
• What is therapeutic cloning?


  Making an embryo that has the same genes as a patient
• What is a risk factor of using stem cells in medicine?


  Infection, passed on to a patient
• What is two reasons people are against stem cell research?

  1. Embryos could be a human life
  2. Scientists should be finding other sources of stem cells
• What does meristem contain?


  Stem cells that can differentiate into any type of plant cell
• What can clones of plants be made of?


  1.Rare species

  2.Crop plants