Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The protoplasm enclosed by the plasma membrane of cell, excluding the nucleus in eukaryotic cells and cellular DNA in prokaryotic cells.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
protoplasm .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The substance of the body of a cell, as distinguished from the
karyoplasma , or substance of the nucleus.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun cytology The contents of a
cell except for thenucleus . It includescytosol ,organelles ,vesicles , and thecytoskeleton .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism
Etymologies
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Examples
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Getting proteins into mitochondria from the cytoplasm is a remarkable process, and just creating and then dealing with the signal sequences involved seems to be a bit much to ask of mutation and selection acting all on their own.
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Though the egg's chromosomes are divided equally between the two new cells, as before, almost all the cytoplasm is concentrated in one daughter cell, that which contains the sperm's nucleus.
Assessing Causality 2008
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Immediately inside the membrane is a fluid called the cytoplasm, which is filled with much of the complex chemical machinery necessary to the cell’s growth and function.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Immediately inside the membrane is a fluid called the cytoplasm, which is filled with much of the complex chemical machinery necessary to the cell’s growth and function.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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This means it can go to all parts of the cell, including the lipid (fat) portions such as the cell plasma membrane, as well as the interior of the cell (known as the cytoplasm) where water soluble chemicals reside.
Dr. Nicholas Perricone: The Top 10 Weight Loss Supplements 2009
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What doctors is they take some of the cytoplasm, which is that jelly-like stuff around the nucleus.
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Thus, the theory behind the IVF procedure known as cytoplasm transfer CT was born.
Getting Pregnant Niels H. Lauersen 2000
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The cytoplasm is the outer and softer part, the substance of the body of the cell.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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However, vitamin B5 is also involved in the transport of these acetyl building blocks from one part of the cell (the large, watery-part called the cytoplasm) into smaller, more specialized organelles (called the mitochondria) where fat is actually produced.
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"Researchers have long sought this elusive protein that senses the presence of DNA in the cytoplasm, which is associated with pathogenic infection or the escape of undigested self-DNA into the cytoplasm," Dr. Alnemri said.
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