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• n  the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus)

• It does not store memories, but "engrams"impressions on protoplasm itself.
• Every body cell contains protoplasm, a gooey material like white of egg, one-fourth heavier than water.
• Most obvious door to the central mysteries of life is protoplasm, the basic stuff of living cells.

• living substance

Quotes

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• George Gilder in Los Angeles Daily News
  At the beginning of the 21st century, we've discovered that the cell, long believed to be just a lump of protoplasm, is really hundreds of super-computers and that the human body contains some 300 billion miles of DNA coding,said George...
• Jonathan Alter in Medical News Today (press release)
  I'll choose yours or mine over a piece of protoplasm no larger than the period at the end of this sentence,Alter concludes (Alter, Newsweek , 7/31).