When scientists and medical doctors talk of germ cells, what do they mean ?
Are they talking about infectious bacteria germ cells or are they describing the human egg and sperm that contain the human germ line ?
Obviously they are talking about both.
The root of the word "germ" has a variety of meanings and perhaps surprising to most of us, that meaning for thousands of years was a highly positive one.
In fact, at a time when most people met the Spring sun basically near starving, perhaps the most hopefully positive word in the whole human lexicon.