Question

Liver cells, bone cells, nerve cells, and muscle cells are called _____ cells. Sperm cells and egg cells are called ______. Help me fill in the blank

Answer 1

The answera are somatic and gametes respectively.

Somatic cells mean body cells. All the cells in your body except the ones for reproduction are called somatic cells. They have a complete set of chromosomes (with DNA) and they have different functions to the body.

Reproduction cells such as sperm cells or egg cells, they can be called gametes. In human, only sperm or eggs are called gametes. They only have half of the chromosomes comparing to other somatic cells, since they need to fuse together and restore the correct amount of chromosomes during fertilization.