In developmental biology, fate mapping is a method of understanding the embryonic origin of various tissues in the adult organism by establishing the correspondence between individual cells (or groups of cells)) at one stage of development, and their progeny at later stages of development. When carried out at single-cell resolution, this process is termed cell lineage tracing.
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