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What is the difference between embryonic and adult stem cells, and what are its similarities?
Why are embryonic stem cells considered pluripotent while adult stem cells are multipotent?
Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent because they have the ability to differentiate into all types of cells in the body. This is because they are derived from the inner cell mass of a blastocyst, which is an early stage embryo. Adult stem cells are multipotent because they can only differentiate into certain types of cells within their tissue of origin, such as blood cells in the bone marrow or skin cells in the skin.