Soma means body. Somatic cell is body cell.
Yes, it is. The somatic (body) cells of multi celled organisms that reproduce sexually contain pairs of chromosomes.
Somatic cell.
It is called a somatic cell
The typical body cell (or somatic cell) of a human has 46 chromosomes: 22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes. In females, there are two X chromosomes and in males there is one X and one Y.
Another name for body cells is somatic cells.
Somatic, or body cells
Somatic cell
A somatic cell is part of the nervous system. (somatic also means body). This cell is a multicellular organsim.A somatic cell is also generally taken to mean any cell forming the body of an organism such as, internal organs skin, bones, blood and connective tissue are all made up of somatic cells.
No, cells that become gametes are not called somatic cell lines. Somatic cell lines refer to normal body cells that are not involved in reproduction, while gametes are specialized reproductive cells (sperm and egg) that are involved in sexual reproduction.
The body cell of a plant.
A somatic cell is any cell in the body or a plant and can therefore do anything, depending on where it is located. e.g. a muscle cell in an arm muscle contracts, an eye cell detects light etc. The only cells which are not somatic are the sex cells such as sperm, eggs (animals), pollen and ovum (plants).
Somatic cells are body cells that contain a full set of chromosomes. I imagine that a somatic cell donor donates healthy body cells to someone who needs them.