The substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
living substance
Protoplasm Sentence Examples
Embedded in the protoplasm are a number of starch grains.
In some species (Ascaris decipiens) the giant cell is replaced by an irregular mass of protoplasm containing a number of small nuclei.
The material and the energy go together, the decomposition of the one in the cell setting free the other, which is used at once in the vital processes of the cell, being in fact largely employed in constructing protoplasm or storing various products.
Such a plasmodium bears, on its periphery, groups of rounded projections of protoplasm termed end-organs.
The end wall is usually very thin, and the protoplasm on artificial contraction commonly sticks to it just as in a sieve-tube, though no perforation of the wall has been found.