found: MeSH browser, Aug. 3, 2006(Germ Cells. Scope note: The reproductive cells in multicellular organisms. Entry terms: Gametes; Germ-Line Cells; Germ Line)
found: Penguin dict. of biol.(germ cell: any of the cells forming a germinal epithelium, plus its cell products, the gametes)
found: Oxford dict. of biol.(germ cell: any cell in the series of cells (the germ line) that eventually produces gametes)
found: Rudin, N. Dict. of modern biol.(germline: the cell line that becomes differentiated from the remaining somatic cell line early in the development of many animals and alone has the potential to undergo meiosis and form gametes)
