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How are somatic cells different from gametes?(1 point)
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Somatic cells do not go through cell division.
Somatic cells do not go through cell division.

Somatic cell mutations are not passed to the next generation.
Somatic cell mutations are not passed to the next generation.

Somatic cells contain half the number of chromosomes.
Somatic cells contain half the number of chromosomes.

Somatic cells are sex cells.
Somatic cells are sex cells.

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Somatic cell mutations are not passed to the next generation.

(Explanation: somatic cells are body cells, diploid, and divide by mitosis; gametes are sex cells, haploid, produced by meiosis, and only mutations in gametes (germline) can be inherited.)