Think about a petal plucked from its flowers: is the petal alive according to the characteristics of life? why or why not?

the petal as a whole is dead, but the cells within it are more or less still alive for the meantime as they don't die immediately after being plucked.

advantage of using stem cells in medical research:

1.       it provides medical benefits in the fields of therapeutic cloning and regenerative medicine.

2. it provides great potential for discovering treatments and cures to a variety of diseases including parkinson disease, spinal cord injuries, diabetes, alzheimer’s disease and many more.

3. limbs and organ could be grown in lab from stem cells and then used in transplant or treat illness.

haploid cells;