somatic cell

How To Use somatic cell In A Sentence

• Gene manipulation, as it's being performed now, is gene manipulation of what we call somatic cells. CNN Transcript - Special Event: Millennium 2000: Cancer - January 2, 2000
• If the mutation occurs in a somatic cell, it can cause altered cell growth (e.g., cancer) or cell death (e.g., teratogenesis) in the exposed person. Toxicity
• The development of mosaic flies clearly illustrates the cell autonomy of sex determination in the somatic cells of Drosophila.
• The development of volvoxes which are mutant for both the gls and regA loci resembles that of simpler volvocaceans, wherein all cells first differentiate as somatic cells and then later become reproductive cells.
• And this is the term somatic cell, which means a body cell. CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2002
• Around 2000 biflagellate somatic cells are uniformly distributed over the surface of a transparent gelatinous sphere, with 16 larger asexual reproductive cells, known as gonidia, lying beneath the surface.
• Oocytes and sperm are haploid, with one set of chromosomes, whereas somatic cells are diploid, with two chromosomal sets.
• The cell synthesized by somatic cell nuclear transfer, no less than the fertilized egg, is a human organism in its germinal stage.
• diploid somatic cells
• As the cyst matures and moves posteriorly through the germarium, somatic cells move to surround each cyst to form a single-layered cuboidal epithelium.