germ line
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Perhaps, in human culture, and especially in the transmission of ideas through language, we have already created a new germ line, one that transcends individuals and even DNA.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 13, 2025
The survivors made it into the germ line, so the within-lifetime innovations were passed on to subsequent flowers and pollen.
From Science Magazine • Aug. 29, 2019
The germ line of animals, meaning the eggs and the sperm and the reproductive cells that give rise to them, is held separate from such influences.
From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2018
“If it is a stable change in the germ line, in the sperm and eggs, it could be passed on forever,” Feig tells me.
From Slate • Jun. 27, 2018
We’re supposed to do a report on germ line cell mutations in fruit flies instead.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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