Differentiation and Specialised Cells

• Specialized cells are cells that have a specific role in the body and help them fulfill that role, often having a specific shape and structure and specific amounts of different organelles like mitochondria.
• Differentiation is the process by which a cell changes to become specialized, often involving changing the shape and structure of the cell as well as the combination of organelles that it contains.
• Stem cells are cells that have the ability to repeatedly divide by mitosis and differentiate into different types of specialized cells.