A Stem Cell Story – Video Questions
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A Stem Cell Story – Video Questions• 1. Life begins with how many cells?
• 2. How many new blood cells are made daily? Where do these blood cells come from?
• 3. How many different types of specialized cells can one blood stem cell
(hematopoietic stem cell) make?
• 4. What is a stem cell?
• 5. Where can scientists obtain stem cells?
• 6. How many types of cells can adult/tissue stem cells make?
• 7. What type of stem cell can become any type of cell and form any tissue?
• 8. Where does the Embryonic stem cell come from?
A Stem Cell Story – Video Questions Cont’d
• 9. Neural stem cells from the brain can differentiate into which types of cell?
• 10. What are the roles of stem cells in our bodies?
• 11. What medical advantages come from using stem cells?
• 12. What are cells ‘fed’ when they are grown in a lab?
• 13. What is the major obstacle in beta cell transplantation in diabetes?
• 14. What are scientists trying to do to overcome the shortage of beta cells?
• 15. What are stem cell scientists investigating today? • 16. To the narrator, to understand what is to understand the most important
thing about life?
Extra Questions• 17. What is a multipotent stem cell? Which stem cell exhibits this?
• 18. What is a totipotent/pluripotent stem cell? Which stem cell exhibits this?
• 19. Why is using Embryonic Stem Cells controversial?