protoplasm

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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.

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Ehrlich discovered in the protoplasm of supposed plasma cells a granulate which could be made visible with the help of an alkaline dye. Source: Internet

Ehrlich’s side-chain theory Paul Ehrlich around 1900 in his Frankfurt office He postulated that cell protoplasm contains special structures which have chemical side chains (today’s term is macromolecules ) to which the toxin binds, affecting function. Source: Internet

In his work on Myxomycetes (1858), he pointed out that at one stage of their life cycle (the plasmodial stage), they were little more than formless, motile masses of the substance that Félix Dujardin (1801–1860) had called sarcode ( protoplasm ). Source: Internet

"Introductory Mycology" John Wiley and Sons, p. 78. Migration of the plasmodium is accomplished when more protoplasm streams to advancing areas and protoplasm is withdrawn from rear areas. Source: Internet

All physical, chemical, and biological processes in soil and roots are affected in particular because of the increased viscosities of water and protoplasm at low temperatures. Source: Internet

Only salt-tolerant micro-algae survive in the high salinity ponds, and impart a deep red color to these ponds from the pigment within the algae protoplasm. Source: Internet

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