Definition for Fate
From Biology Forums Dictionary
The fate of a cell describes what it will become in the course of normal development. The fate of a particular cell can be discovered by labeling that cell and observing what structures it becomes a part of. When the fate of all cells of an embryo has been discovered, we can build a fate map, which is a diagram of that organism at an early stage of development that indicates the fate of each cell or region at a later stage of development.
