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In embryonic development, totipotent cells (ostensibly organisms) divide into pluripotent cells (ostensibly nonorganisms), which in turn divide into cells that are "committed" to become specific tissues.
Doerflinger, the Catholic spokesman, was so intent on asserting the unique personhood of totipotent cells that he dismissed pluripotent cells, by contrast, as nonorganisms.
until now, the conventional wisdom in biology has had it that while early embryonic cells are "totipotent," capable of becoming any kind of tissue, once cells have differentiated into a particular tissue type they must remain that type.
Conversely, pro-biotech witnesses argued that the stem cells in the experiments were only "pluripotent" (capable of forming many tissues), not "totipotent" (capable of forming an entire body), and therefore weren't organisms or embryos.