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protoplasm
[ proh-tuh-plaz-uhm ]
noun
- Biology. (no longer in technical use) the colloidal and liquid substance of which cells are formed, excluding horny, chitinous, and other structural material; the cytoplasm and nucleus.
- Obsolete. the living matter of organisms regarded as the physical basis of life, having the ability to sense and conduct stimuli.
protoplasm
/ 藞辫谤蓹蕣迟蓹藢辫濒忙锄蓹尘 /
noun
- biology the living contents of a cell, differentiated into cytoplasm and nucleoplasm
protoplasm
- The semifluid, translucent substance that forms the living matter in all plant and animal cells. Composed of proteins, fats, and other substances suspended in water, it includes the cytoplasm and (in eukaryotes) the nucleus.
protoplasm
- The jellylike material in a cell , both inside and outside the nucleus , where the chemical reactions that support life take place.
Derived Forms
- 藢辫谤辞迟辞藞辫濒补蝉尘颈肠, adjective
Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 辫谤辞顎卼辞路辫濒补蝉顎僲颈肠 辫谤辞顎卼辞路辫濒补蝉顎僲补濒 辫谤辞路迟辞路辫濒补蝉路尘补迟路颈肠 [proh-toh-plaz-, mat, -ik], adjective
- in顎卼er路辫谤辞顎卼辞路辫濒补蝉顎僲颈肠 adjective
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of protoplasm1
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of protoplasm1
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Example Sentences
In the mid-1800s others, such as Darwin's supporter Thomas Henry Huxley, began to suspect that there was a generic form of 鈥渓iving matter鈥濃攐ften called protoplasm鈥攆rom which the most primitive life-forms were fashioned.
鈥淲e just got a good lesson in how to be effective without moving protoplasm around,鈥 he said.
鈥淭he differences in life expectancy are structural racism revealed 鈥 just the baseline differences 鈥 because there鈥檚 no difference in our protoplasm,鈥 she said.
Ashley reprints, for example, 鈥淭he Story of Yand Manor House,鈥 in which Low encounters a mass of invisible protoplasm that smothers its victims.
Professor Huxley has not proved, and it is impossible for him to prove, that these protoplasms may not have essential points of difference.
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