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What is somatic cells?

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Anonymous

16y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

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.

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