Specialised cell type Animal or plant cell? Function Features of cell that allow it to perform its function Beta cell (in pancreas) Animal Releases hormone insulin Uses its genetic instructions to ...

Cells are the fundamental unit of all living things. Specialised plant cells have components that allow them to complete a specific purpose. Specialised plant cells include root hair cells ...

This type of experiment showed that ... the need to grow with the need to produce specialized cells, which often cannot divide. In both plants and animals, stem cell niches likely evolved as ...

An important cell membrane protein ... to be involved in a range of specialized cellular functions. A research team from the Timiryazev Institute of Plant Physiology at the Russian Academy of ...

Depending on the tissue, the tissue renewing stem cells are either multipotent and can produce many types of specialized cells, or unipotent and can differentiate only into one type of cell. During ...