Talk:Somatic cell

Two changes will help clarify this article
1. "Somatic cells are any cells forming the body of an organism, as opposed to germline cells." This sentence does not make sense. If somatic cells form the organism then germ cells can not be present. As we all know this is not correct.

2. "In humans, somatic cells contain 46 individual chromosomes, organized into 23 pairs of chromosomes." If all (non-germ) cells of the body are somatic cells then red blood cell are somatic cells. In humans RBCs have lost their nucleus, this the statement is incorrect.

Chuck —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hormonechemist (talk • contribs) 20:59, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

a skin cell would be a somatic cell incase anybody didn't know

a somatic cell is cool and it is in the satIIs booklets :)

Somatic Cells are awesome. We just learned about them in biology. Go Packers! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.125.32.159 (talk) 19:54, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

The Opening is still a problem logically
A somatic cell (Greek: σὠμα/soma = body) is any biological cell forming the body of an organism; that is, in a multicellular organism, any cell other than a gamete, germ cell, gametocyte or undifferentiated stem cell.[1] By contrast, gametes are cells that fuse during sexual reproduction, for organisms that reproduce sexually; Germ cells are cells that give rise to gametes; Stem cells are cells that can divide through mitosis and differentiate into diverse specialized cell types. For example, in mammals, somatic cells make up all the internal organs, skin, bones, blood and connective tissue. By contrast, mammalian germ cells give rise to spermatozoa and ova which fuse during fertilization to produce a cell called a zygote, which develops into an embryo. Somatic cells are diploid.[1]

If a somatic cell is any cell other than several forms including other than a "germ cell", why are mammalian germ cells and what they yield included in the opening paragraph? While this may be interesting in some other aspect what does this have to do with a somatic cell? Stevenmitchell (talk) 04:58, 24 June 2013 (UTC)

Vandalism
It looks like user 72.200.140.158 is constantly modifying the contents with rubbish. Can someody block him? vcpk (talk) 03:45, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Dr. Hwang Woo-suk information irrelevant
Surely the information about Dr. Hwang Woo-suk should not be on this page? The edit by 129.252.131.57 on 21st Jan added it, and it looks like a straight copy-paste from another source. Glennji (talk) 12:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

you —Preceding unsigned comment added by 170.158.64.28 (talk) 14:50, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Repetition in the lead
The article begins with: "A somatic cell (Greek: σὠμα/soma = body)" and later it says (reads! :)) "The word "somatic" is derived from the Greek word sōma, meaning "body"." but this seems to me as being way too much repetition, what do you all think? Should we refer to the Greek origin in the beginning of the lead section, at the end, or both? Χρυσάνθη Λυκούση (talk) 01:08, 26 March 2014 (UTC)

Wording and changes
This sentence could be phrased a bit differently. "...Weismannist development is relatively rare (e.g., vertebrates, arthropods, Volvox), as great part of species have the capacity for somatic embryogenesis (e.g., land plants, most algae, many invertebrates).[3][4]" I would consider changing this to "as a great number of species" to flow more smoothly.

I also think it would be important to note in the Cloning section that this technique has been considered controversial.

The last section "Somatic Cell Modifications" could use an example of how somatic cells can be modified. There is a lot of good informations supporting the other titles so it almost leaves me hanging at the end to just have two sentences. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.185.114.9 (talk) 03:25, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

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