Germline mutation

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This distinction is most important in animals, where germ cells are distinct from somatic cells. However, in plants, the reproductive cells in a particular flower will be derived from the same meristem as the cells in that flower and on the stem leading to the flower, which is a different population of cells than those that give rise to the other flowers on the plant. Single-celled organisms have no distinction between germline and somatic tissues.



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  1. ^ RB1 Genetics at Daisy's Eye Cancer Fund. Retrieved May 2011
  2. ^ Schizophrenia Risk and the Paternal Germ Line