plasm
/ˈplæzəm/
noun
- The fluid part of a cell, such as cytoplasm or protoplasm.
- The plasm of a cell is mostly water, but it also contains important proteins and nutrients.
- The biologist studied the movement of organelles within the cell's plasm.
- In plant cells, the plasm contains chloroplasts that carry out photosynthesis.
- A substance or material that forms the basis of living matter; protoplasm.
- Early scientists believed that all life was made of a single kind of living plasm.
- Germ plasm refers to the genetic material passed from parents to offspring.
- The discovery of DNA changed how we understand the plasm of cells.
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