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Do people with birth defects caused by a mother who used drugs cause permanent genetic errors all the way down the bloodline?
Like if the child who was damaged (brain/birth defects) has kids, will those kids inherit the defects as well or are the genes still intact?
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- Anonymous4 years ago
There are two kinds of cells: somatic and germ (gametes). Mutations can happen in either but are only heritable from germ cells. Anyway, birth defects aren't mutations, they're _developmental_ errors. Details:
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