Question

A young woman has skin cancer and recovers. The skin cancer was due to tanning in salons. Will her baby inherit skin cancer?

A: no, genetic errors in somatic cells are not passed on to offspring

B: yes, genetic errors in somatic cells are passed on to offspring

Answer 1

I believe the answer is B because some families have cancer run in the genetics and cancer is a genetic mutation so that’s my guess but I’m not sure