Somatic cells, the cells of the soma; mortality of, 17.
From this germinal protoplasm, which makes the germ-cells, he distinguishes the somatic protoplasm which makes the mortal, somatic cells.
If this became true of the whole mass of somatic cells, we should then meet with natural death for the first time.
Now, according to Weismann, inheritance is only through germ-cells, while the environment affects only the somatic cells.
The great mass of the cells of this individual, the body or somatic cells, take no part whatsoever in giving rise to the germ-cells of the next generation.
Put in another way the body, or somatic cells, contribute absolutely nothing to the original material or germ-plasm of which the germ-cells are composed.
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