germline

Examples

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• So should we celebrate or condemn this first step into reproductive cell or germline genetic engineering?

  Blog text (30)

• So your germline and my germline are set when we were born.

  Andrew Huberman

• An interest in barring clinical uses of germline gene editing may well be "an important or substantial" one.

  Academic text (2017)

• Well, that's because there is a barrier between the genes of the germline cells and behaviors.

• We can encode those genes taken from some mice into the germline genome.

• The state could most effectively prevent health, safety, and other concerns about clinical germline gene editing by prohibiting the clinical use of such technology.

  Academic text (2017)

• The sequencing results showed that several types of mutations have passed through the germline (data not shown).

  Academic text (2017)

• The next step in disease elimination is to attempt to refine a process known as "human germline engineering" or "human germline modification."

  Academic text (2007)

• All 249 mutations so far tested were somatic rather than germline mutations.

  Academic text (1991)

• Germline modification would begin by using IVF to create a single-cell embryo or zygote.

  Academic text (2007)

Synonyms

G

germ cell

vsgermline

• Specialized

2 5.8

Cell like a sperm or egg that carries genes to children

includes hereditary genetic material inside those units

R

reproductive cell

vsgermline

• Specialized

1 3.4

A cell like a sperm or egg that carries half the genes for a new life

refers to the hereditary genetic material passed across generations, not one individual unit

G

germplasm

vsgermline

• Specialized

1 9.3

Seeds, cells, or tissue that carry parents' traits for breeding and conservation

focuses on inherited genetic line inside parents rather than stored breeding samples

Antonyms

S

somatic cell

• Specialized

2 4.9

A body cell that is not a sex cell

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology