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Dictionary » S » Somatic cells Somatic cellsDefinition noun, singular: somatic cell The word “somatic” is derived from the Greek word soma, meaning “body”. Hence, all body cells of an organism – apart from the sperm and egg cells, the cells from which they arise (gametocytes) and undifferentiated stem cells – are somatic cells.
Examples of somatic cells are cells of internal organs, skin, bones, blood and connective tissues. In comparison, the somatic cells contain a full set of chromosomes whereas the reproductive cells contain only half.
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Results from our forumHelp with Xenotransplantation please.... genome can be multiplied in a bacterial plasmid. Afaik, the modified cells themselves are rarely grown in a culture for somatic cell transfer (which is, in effect, cloning). The standard method, thus, is to edit ...
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A question from Cloning... the haploid fusion part seems to be a bit more complicated. Haploid somatic cells are routinely used to produce diploid hybrids at least in plants and fungi, but with ...
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Human agingA cruical question: stem cells do not go under replicative senescence because it has telomerase. As all cells ... DNA damage and mutations, then stem cells would accumulate more abnormalities than somatic ones, so they die off quicker, and should be lost quicker?
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About Mitosis...Please Help Me :cry:Oh! Thank You!!! :D so it is located ( takes place) in somatic cells right?? Thank You very very very much!!!! :))))
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