If you have a mutation in your skin cells from falling asleep in a tanning bed, how will this affect your offspring?   Question 10 options:   It will affect their entire body because their entire body grew out of the fertilized egg   It may affect them, depending on whether those particular skin cells are passed on to them   It will affect your offspring's skin cells only   It won't affect them because the mutation is not in a gamete   It won't affect them because mutations cannot be passed down to offsprin

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If you have a mutation in your skin cells from falling asleep in a tanning bed, how will this affect your offspring?

 
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It will affect their entire body because their entire body grew out of the fertilized egg

 

It may affect them, depending on whether those particular skin cells are passed on to them

 

It will affect your offspring's skin cells only

 

It won't affect them because the mutation is not in a gamete

 

It won't affect them because mutations cannot be passed down to offspring

 
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