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PROTOPLASMIC CELL CONTENTS 3<br />

A cell is a mass of protoplasm containing a nucleus.<br />

Protoplasm is the more or less semi-fluid, viscid, foamy, and granu-<br />

lar substance in which life resides. It is the "physical basis of life."<br />

Vegetable cells generally have cell walls of cellulose surrounding the<br />

living protoplasm of the cell (protoplast).<br />

Cells divide to form tissues.<br />

Protoplasmic Cell Contents<br />

Protoplasm consists of four well-differentiated portions<br />

(a) Cytoplasm, or the foamy, often granular matrix of protoplasm<br />

outside of the nucleus.<br />

Vacuole<br />

Passive bodies<br />

(metaplasmor<br />

paraplasm)<br />

suspended in<br />

the cytoplasmicmeshwork<br />

Fig. I.—Diagram of a cell. {From Hegner's Zoology, after Wilson, published by the<br />

Macmillan Co.)<br />

(b) Nucleus or Nuclearplasm, a denser region of protoplasm con-<br />

taining chromatin, a substance staining heavily with certain basic dyes.<br />

(c) Nucleolus, a small body of dense protoplasm within the nucleus.<br />

(d) Plastids, composed of plastid plasm, small discoid bodies scat-<br />

tered about in the cytoplasm. Sometimes, as in the cells of lower plants<br />

like the Spirogyra, plastids are large and are then called chromatophores.

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