Its effect is most readily understood by assuming that cocaine poisons the protoplasm by entering with it into combinations which are easily broken up.
When the cell is quiescent, the protoplasm appears evenly granular, but when it is stirred to active life, slender twining threads can be traced in the nucleus, perhaps consisting of one long thread twisted upon itself.
Simultaneously with this division, or immediately following it, the protoplasm of the cell body divides in the same place, and thus two complete cells are produced.
Bacteria are minute fungi, each consisting of a single cell enclosed in a cell membrane of cellulose which can be demonstrated by iodine, the latter causing the protoplasm to retract from the cell wall.
And the spiritual faculties are organized in the spiritual protoplasm of the soul, just as other faculties are organized in the protoplasm of the body.
The effort to detect the living Spirit must be at least as idle as the attempt to subjectprotoplasm to microscopic examination in the hope of discovering Life.
To this the general answer is that perhaps there was a small beginning, a protoplasm from which all things grew.
Never at any later time has anyone beheld such a protoplasm through which an entire world arose, and in that case all existence is based upon a miracle.
Even the denser exterior portion (ectosarc) possessed by some of them seems to be rather a temporary coagulation of the protoplasm than a real differentiation of that material.
Here there is a pigment spot; but careful experiment showed that this was not the point most sensitive to light, a colourless and transparent area of protoplasm lying in front of it being found to be so.
Ours is the original and orthodox belief, for protoplasm is much more animal than vegetable.
We can look back to the period prior to the divergence of living protoplasm into the two kingdoms.
Educated Zulus appear somewhat inclined to take the expression in an allegorical sense, and to understand the reeds either as a kind of protoplasm or as a creator who was mortal.
He supplied the protoplasm of the Tinnehs, as Purusha did that of the Aryan world, out of his own body.
LIFE, the popular name for the activity peculiar to protoplasm (q.
Synalissa, Micarea, the haustoria pierce the membrane, but do not penetrate the protoplasm (fig.
But it suggests a method by which, when the chemistry of protoplasm and proteid is better known, the proper substances which compose protoplasm may be brought together to form a simple kind of protoplasm.
The model has no power of recuperation; in a comparatively short time equilibrium is restored and the resemblance with protoplasm disappears.
A multitude of minor and simpler organic compounds, of which carbohydrates and fats are the best known, occur in differentprotoplasm in varying forms and proportions, and are much less isolated from the inorganic world.
Finally, protoplasm contains various inorganic substances, such as salts and water, the latter giving it its varying degrees of liquid consistency.
Butschli have shown how a model ofprotoplasm can be manufactured.
From the moment that the scientists brought the protoplasm of Demarzule to Earth and revealed the story of their find, it had been inevitable.
They took pictures of the equipment and technicians, and of the protoplasm lying inert within the bath, in which the nutrient liquids would be placed after a temperature of a hundred degrees had been reached.
Invisible rays suddenly bathed the mass of shapeless protoplasm within the bowl.
It all started with that hysterical mob the day we brought the protoplasm here.
Inside, under the cover, the broad reflecting cone of the radiator would spray the long dormant protoplasm with life-giving radiation.
Removal of the protoplasmto Earth was a critical operation.
This is my message to you, my warning: Destroy the contents of the protoplasm chamber without mercy.
During this time the Lavoisier had been slowly swinging in an orbit about the Earth to keep the repository, taken bodily into its hold, at the temperature of space, until time for the transfer of the protoplasm to the nutrient bath.
The center of construction was the ceramic bath which would hold the mass of protoplasm in its nutrient solution and keep it in controlled temperatures and pressures.
It is possible that too much time has passed and the protoplasm has died.
We have new evidence--Terry may have been right when he asked to have the protoplasm destroyed.
A crowd of ten thousand gathered to watch the removal of the protoplasm that had once been a great and alien being.
They went down into the main chamber which had held the protoplasm of the Great One.
The protoplasm would just quietly die and then what would these birds have to worship?
The first outward sign had been that wild cry of welcome the day the protoplasm was brought to Earth.
The protoplasm of the fungus ramifies among and within the tissues of the roots of attacked plants, and eventually produces an amazing number of spores so small that more than thirty millions would be required to cover a superficial inch.
Behind him, the Crew whispered in its tank, protoplasm developed in the labs and quivering now with some unified sensation that was purely subjective and blissfully unconcerned with what happened outside itself.
The ones with whom he had shared so many dangers and awful silences that the five of them had been able to evolve the idea of the protoplasm in the tank and merge their consciousness in it.
So Kelly concentrated on the increasingly painful and difficult task of tearing his consciousness free of the big glob of protoplasmin the tank, and getting it back into his body that hibernated in the bunkroom.
It has a large spherical nucleus with a small rim of clear protoplasm surrounding it.
This possesses a nucleus of very complicated outline and a fair amount of protoplasm filled with numbers of fine granules which stain with eosin.
This possesses a spherical nucleus and the protoplasm contains a small number of granules staining deeply with basic dyes.
The granules are confined to the protoplasm of the cell, and it has been shown that they differ chemically, because their staining properties vary.
Protoplasm is not proton, but deuteron; the elements are antecedent to it.
Each when reduced to its fundamental form is seen to consist of a small mass of living matter termed protoplasm in which may usually be distinguished two regions--the cell-body or cytoplasm, and the nucleus (Fig.
In another passage he[6] remarks as follows: "But what is of much greater importance is the fact that acute and chronic alcoholic intoxication deteriorates the germinal protoplasm of the procreators.
But it should be borne in mind that nerve protoplasm possesses only in high degree a capacity for irritability, conduction, etc.
Indeed, we know that this class of people is increasing at an enormous rate in every community and unless we do something to stop this great stream of bad protoplasm we shall some day be swamped in a sea of degeneracy.
The instability of protoplasm is one of its striking characteristics.
In higher animals, therefore, the tropisms where operative must act more or less through the agency of the nervous system instead of directly through the general protoplasm of the organism.
It is a marked characteristic of all living protoplasm that it has the power of responding to external stimuli.
By the transformation of its protoplasm the surplus food-materials of the times of plenty are stored away within its cell-wall against the time of stress.
The quivering responsiveness of the protoplasm of the am[oe]boid ancestral cell has transformed itself into tough, stringy bands and webs for the purpose of binding together the more delicate tissues of the body.
Amorphous substances, again, form the protoplasm or nutritive element of cells or the elements of life.
And protoplasm exists in the shape of millions of minute globules set side by side, and more or less welded together.
Second: Erect sporangia on a narrow or stalk-like base, begin as node-like swellings on the branches of the plasmodium, and gradually rise to their ultimate form as the surrounding protoplasm flows into them and assumes an upward direction.
In each vat a blob of pink protoplasm wiggled happily, showing no sign of discomfiture.
It inactivates the enzyme system, and renders the base protoplasm vulnerable to anything that normally attacks it.
The other is that of contraction, during which the cell body has more protoplasm in it, and the processes become shorter and thicker, and some of the secondary branches disappear entirely.
Frequently from the outer surface of the capsule arise numerous branched streams of sarcode, which pierce the calymma and are directed towards the inside of the shell-wall, where they are united by a thin continuous layer of protoplasm (Pl.
The granulated protoplasm contains numerous vacuoles, and surrounds a large spheroidal nucleus, with numerous small nucleoli.
The protoplasm around the nucleus contains many vacuoles, and in the oral part of the capsule (between nucleus and operculum) often numerous groups of crystals (Pl.
Of the earliest plant cells, developed by spontaneous generation in the primordial epoch, some developed tails, or projected filaments of protoplasm from their jelly-like bodies.
But we will say that I was born when my soul atom became involved in the said protoplasm of one of the earliest plant cells.
Claus, protoplasm the test of the cell, 67; abortion of useless organs, 69.
It is necessary to observe on the fundamental distinction between the growth of the protoplasm and the growth of the crystal.
But meanwhile, how is new protoplasm to be formed?
What is it, and why is this protoplasm always active and busy?
You will notice that while the starch and other substances are only made of three elements, the active protoplasm is made of these three added to a fourth, nitrogen, and it also contains phosphorus and sulphur.
The reason is this: when the sunbeam darts into the leaf and sets all its particles quivering, it divides the protoplasm into two kinds, collected into different cells.
In this way each cell will grow too full for its skin, and then the protoplasm divides into two parts and builds up a wall between them, and so one cell becomes two.
This particular kind of protoplasm, which is called "chlorophyll," will have nothing to do with the green waves and throws them back, so that every little grain of this protoplasm looks green and gives the leaf its green colour.
And in the lowest plants, as in the lowest animals, a single mass of such protoplasm may constitute the whole plant, or the protoplasm may exist without a nucleus.
But, in addition to these movements, and independently of them, the granules are driven, in relatively rapid streams, through channels in the protoplasm which seem to have a considerable amount of persistence.
Most commonly, the currents in adjacent parts of the protoplasm take similar directions; and, thus, there is a general stream up one side of the hair and down the other.
But when they are brought together, under certain conditions, they give rise to the still more complex body, protoplasm, and this protoplasm exhibits the phænomena of life.
And were I to return to my own place by sea, and undergo shipwreck, the crustacean might, and probably would, return the compliment, and demonstrate our common nature by turning my protoplasm into living lobster.
Thus a nucleated mass of protoplasmturns out to be what may be termed the structural unit of the human body.
In the lowest organism all parts are competent to perform all functions, and one and the same portion of protoplasm may successfully take on the function of feeding, moving, or reproducing apparatus.
It is a fair question whether the protoplasm of those simplest forms of life, which people an immense extent of the bottom of the sea, would not outweigh that of all the higher living beings which inhabit the land put together.
It will be protoplasm still, so far as our best chemistry can discover, but it will be dead protoplasm, and we cannot make it live again; and as far as we know nature can no more make it live than we can.
We know that the fundamental material of all plants and all animals is a compound called protoplasm, or that, in other words, organic matter in all its immense variety of forms is nothing but protoplasm variously modified.
And we know the constituent elements of this protoplasm, and their proportions, and the temperatures within which protoplasm as such can exist.
It can be used as food for living creatures, animals or plants, and so its substance can be taken up by living protoplasm and made to share in the life which thus consumes it; but life of its own it cannot obtain.
As there is nothing about an ape, or a protoplasm to be accepted as a haven of refuge, science points to another conclusion.
It may take the protoplasm a longer time to turn all this out, but it is a bigger job and time is of small account in such a consideration.
If anything could be more wonderful than the orange seed with which we started, your protoplasm is certainly it.
Whether the process of our creation involved a bit of protoplasm in the midst of chaos, or whether we were evolved from a thought and a breath of an Almighty God, is of very slight consequence as a human consideration.
As science cannot discover how the first protoplasm was created, and as the preaching of the various religions is interwoven with fanciful and unsound assumptions, the most logical solution is to cease bothering one's head about it.
All we require for the demonstration of our theory, is a little bit of protoplasm at the beginning of things and a mass of elemental matter in an unformed state.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "protoplasm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cell; cytoplasm; ectoplasm; protoplasm
