"germline" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000, Gregory Stock, John Campbell, Engineering the Human Germline, Oxford University Press, page 31",
          "text": "Germline gene therapy is a controversial, complex topic; only through many open discussions of this topic by a broad spectrum of our society will we gain the wisdom needed for proper evaluation of the factors that must be considered before we complete initiation of these protocols.",
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        "Those cells of an individual that have genetic material that could be passed to offspring; the source of gametes."
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          "gamete",
          "gamete"
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