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What is protoplasm? Who coined the term protoplasm?​

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What is protoplasm?

Protoplasm is composed of a mixture of small molecules such as ions, amino ACIDS, monosaccharides and water, and macromolecules such as NUCLEIC acids, proteins, lipids and POLYSACCHARIDES. In eukaryotes the protoplasm SURROUNDING the cell nucleus is known as the cytoplasm and that inside the nucleus as the nucleoplasm.

Dujardin

Dujardin (1835) – discovered the protoplasm and NAMED as “sarcode”. J.E. Purkinje (1839) – first introduced the term 'Protoplasm'.



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