Somatic Cell Definition

Somatic Cell Sentence Examples

• Some workers regard certain appearances in dividing cells found in cancer as evidence of a reversion of the somatic cell to the germcell type (heterotypical), otherwise found only in the process which results in the formation of an embryo.

• The reverse is not true, and a compound may well be a somatic cell mutagen but not a germ cell mutagen.

• On the data currently available it would be prudent to assume that HCBD is an in vivo somatic cell mutagen.

• These procedures are utilized in somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT ), a type of embryo stem cell research, and in IVF.

• Nuclear transfer is carried out by fusing the donor somatic cell to an egg whose own nucleus has been removed.