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How do somatic and inherited mutations differ?

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Inherited mutations exist in all cells in the body and somatic mutations only exist in the cell type that mutated.

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The somatic mutation is a type of point mutation, which occur in the somatic cells and cannot pass on from the generation to generations. The inherited mutation is type of mutation which have occurred in previous generations and passed on to the subsequent generations.
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