FGV Stem Cell Vocab Crossword

2. The process by which cells become increasingly specialized to carry out specific functions in tissues and organs.
4. A person with advanced knowledge of empirical fields.
9. A group of cells with a similar function or embryological origin. Tissues organize further to become organs.
10. A cluster of dividing cells made by a fertilized egg.
12. Tissue or cells obtained from a dead human embryo or fetus after a spontaneous or induced abortion or stillbirth.
15. A group or layer of cells that work together to perform a specific function.
17. Cells with the potential to develop into many different types of cells in the body.
18. A permanent change in gene expression inherited by all of a cell's descendants
19. Adult stem cells, present in skeletal muscle tissue, which can self-renew and are capable of giving rise to skeletal muscle cells.
20. An immature cell that can develop into all types of blood cells, including white blood cells, red blood cells, and platelets.

1. Largely undifferentiated cell originating in the central nervous system.
3. Promotes the repair response of diseased, dysfunctional or injured tissue using stem cells or their derivatives.
5. These stem cells come from embryos that are 3 to 5 days old.
6. An animal in the early stages of growth and differentiation that are characterized by cleavage, the laying down of fundamental tissues, and the formation of primitive organs and organ systems.
7. Any of the 3 layers of cells differentiated in embryos following gastrulation.
8. An impairment of health.
11. The basic structural and functional unit of all organisms
13. Early stage cells that can become any type of cell in the body.
14. Unspecialized or undifferentiated cells.
16. A single cell that forms when an egg is fertilized by a sperm. Every cell type in the human body arises from this single cell. Within a few days, that single cell divides over and over again until it forms a blastocyte.