The term often also refers to the primordial germ cells.
The germ cells start to die when they are exposed to normal body temperature, 98.6 degrees.
It has not been observed, however, that Rex1 is expressed in the female germ cells.
The organism will then produce the germ cells that continue in the life cycle.
This is evidence for specification of germ cells by induction.
If this happens in a germ cell, it has the chance of being passed on to future generations.
The disease is a usually inherited condition growing from germ cells in the eyes of infants and children.
Unlike animals, plants do not have germ cells set aside in early development.
They are determined as germ cells when gastrulation is completed.
For this reason, people with inversions in their germ cells often have lower fertility.