The significance of totipotency is that:a

genes are not regularly lost during development.
b. most organisms can be easily cloned.
c. differentiation leads to the loss of certain genes in each cell.
d. somatic cells are incapable of differentiation.
e. unexpressed genes are lost during development.


a

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