Q: What type of mutations cannot be passed on to offspring?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Somatic mutations occur in other cells of the body. These mutations may have little effect on the organism because they are confined to just one cell and its daughter cells. Somatic mutations cannot be passed on to offspring.

 Choices:

- symbiotic mutations

- instructional mutations

- functional mutations

- somatic mutations


A:
somatic mutations