<P> Cell potency is a cell's ability to differentiate into other cell types . The more cell types a cell can differentiate into, the greater its potency . Potency is also described as the gene activation potential within a cell which like a continuum begins with totipotency to designate a cell with the most differentiation potential, pluripotency, multipotency, oligopotency and finally unipotency . </P> <P> Totipotency (Lat . totipotentia, "ability for all (things)") is the ability of a single cell to divide and produce all of the differentiated cells in an organism . Spores and zygotes are examples of totipotent cells . In the spectrum of cell potency, totipotency represents the cell with the greatest differentiation potential . </P>

What is meant by the term differentiation of cells