Abstract

In previous presentations we have seen that individuals are exposed to several environmental physical and chemical compounds with many tissues as target. For us main target are the germ cells. In many cases, the interaction of these compounds with the biological systems can produce genetic effects like dominant lethal mutations, aneuploidy, heritable translocations or reproductive effects as infertility and sterility (Barlow and Sullivan, 1982; Wyrobek, 1993; Altamirano et al., 1996) (Figure 1).

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