Which of the following statements is false?
(a) A mutation that arises in a mother's somatic cell often causes a disease in her daughter.
(b) All mutations in an asexually reproducing single-celled organism are passed on to progeny.
(c) In an evolutionary sense, somatic cells exist only to help propagate germ-line cells.
(d) A mutation is passed on to offspring only if it is present in the germ line.
Choice (a) is false. Mutations are carried in the genetic material, and the only genetic material passed along to the offspring of a sexually reproducing organism comes from a germ-line cell (not a somatic cell).
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