Somatic cell
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somatic-cell-176-15709704
title:
Somatic cell
text:
In cellular biology, a somatic cell, or vegetal cell, is any biological cell forming the body of a multicellular organism other than a gamete, germ cell, gametocyte or undifferentiated stem cell. Somatic cells compose the body of an organism and divide through mitosis. In contrast, gametes derive from meiosis within the germ cells of the germline and they fuse during sexual reproduction. Stem cells also can divide through mitosis, but are different from somatic in that they differentiate into di
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Any biological cell forming the body of an organism
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_cell
date created:
2003-04-09T09:03:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T21:51:43Z
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