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?