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/pɹˈəʊtəʊplˌæzəm/
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NOUN
- the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)
How To Use protoplasm In A Sentence
- At the same time, the information of flax biotechnology of anther culture, haploid breeding, utilization of somatic mutation, protoplasmic culture, gene transformation were introduced in detail.
- While the protoplasm in the animal section of the ovum continues briskly to divide, multiplying the nuclei, the deutoplasm in the vegetal section remains more or less undivided; it is merely consumed as food by the forming cells. The Evolution of Man — Volume 1
- the protoplasms flocculated
- It may seem a small thing to admit that the dull vital actions of a fungus, or a foraminifer, are the properties of their protoplasm, and are the direct results of the nature of the matter of which they are composed. Autobiography and Selected Essays
- Three cell types are found: astrocytes with their two varieties, protoplasmic and fibrous; oligodendroglia; and microglia.
- In recent years such high-precision instruments have been developed, and microsurgery on cells, known as micrurgy, has become an important part of the study of protoplasm.
- Giant cells (myeloplaxes, osteoclasts), large, multinucleated, protoplasmic masses, are also to be found in both sorts of adult marrow, but more particularly in red marrow. II. Osteology. 2. Bone
- How the creature does this is unknown, but Mark Fricker of Oxford University, who is one of Dr Tero's colleagues, speculates that the forces generated by protoplasm pulsating back-and-forth through the multinuclear cell are interpreted and used to determine which routes to reinforce, and which connections to trim. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
- The protoplasm is extruded as pseudopods via the aperture and through any perforations that may be present in the test.
- We're chemical machines, a variety of processes chewing on somewhere between one and ten terabytes of data in a mess of gray protoplasm, and everything that we think and experience is a result of those processes, and that incudes religious experience. Faith, Atheism, and Death