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Definition of Protoplasm

Protoplasm
Protoplasm Pro"to*plasm, n. [Proto- + Gr. ? form, fr. ? to mold.] (Biol.) The viscid and more or less granular material of vegetable and animal cells, possessed of vital properties by which the processes of nutrition, secretion, and growth go forward; the so-called `` physical basis of life;' the original cell substance, cytoplasm, cytoblastema, bioplasm sarcode, etc. Note: The lowest forms of animal and vegetable life (unicellular organisms) consist of simple or unaltered protoplasm; the tissues of the higher organisms, of differentiated protoplasm.

Meaning of Protoplasm from wikipedia

- Protoplasm (/ˈproʊtəˌplæzəm/; pl. protoplasms) is the part of a cell that is surrounded by a plasma membrane. It is a mixture of small molecules such...
- in the central nervous system: including fibrous (in white matter), protoplasmic (in grey matter), and radial. The fibrous glia are usually located within...
- Stroma, in botany, refers to the colorless fluid surrounding the grana within the chloroplast. Within the stroma are grana (stacks of thylakoid), the sub-organelles...
- Ergastic substances are non-protoplasmic materials found in cells. The living protoplasm of a cell is sometimes called the bioplasm and distinct from the...
- Cytoplasmic streaming, also called protoplasmic streaming and cyclosis, is the flow of the cytoplasm inside the cell, driven by forces from the cytoskeleton...
- Monocystidae) of acephaline gregarines (subclass Gregarinasina) not having the protoplasm divided into segments by septa and including internal parasites of invertebrates...
- German botanist from Stuttgart. He was the first person to use the word "protoplasm". He was a son of the Württemberg statesman Benjamin Ferdinand von Mohl [de]...
- The nucleoplasm, also known as karyoplasm, is the type of protoplasm that makes up the cell nucleus, the most prominent organelle of the eukaryotic cell...
- Fischer and Suer proposed that water in the protoplasm is not free but in a chemically combined form—the protoplasm represents a combination of protein, salt...
- writes: "When a part of the Universal Breath becomes ensconced in the protoplasmic environment which it animates, it is called jiva." The body is the scene...