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Somatic Cell.
Somatic Cell - as a noun
Any of the cells of a plant or animal except the reproductive cells; a cell that does not participate in the production of gametes
Example: "Somatic cells are produced from preexisting cells"
Synonyms (Exact Relations)
vegetative cellHypernyms (Closely Related)
cellHyponyms (Broadly Related)
skin cellepithelial cellneoplastic cellbone cell
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blood cellblood corpusclecorpusclephagocytescavenger cellvisual celladipose cellfat cellmuscle cellmuscle fibermuscle fibreschwann cellnerve cellneuronglial cellneurogliacyteneuroglial cellhybridomalabrocytemast cellmastocytestem celltarget cell
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Example Sentences
"A somatic cell contains two copies of each chromosome, one from each parent."
"Skin cells, liver cells, and muscle cells are all examples of somatic cells."
"Mutations can occur in somatic cells but are not passed on to offspring."
"Cancer is typically caused by uncontrolled division of somatic cells."
"A somatic cell has a diploid set of chromosomes."
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