protoplasm

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We push dirt around and make piles of rocks and amount to less than a gigaton of protoplasm.

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

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noun

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

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noun

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

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We push dirt around and make piles of rocks and amount to less than a gigaton of protoplasm.

They have cell membranes, which separate the protoplasm of the cell from the outside the world, and only selectively let some molecules through.

Well, we get from simple algorithms to general AI the same way evolution got from small individual blobs of protoplasm to Albert Einstein.

[79] The play begins in a factory that uses a chemical substitute for protoplasm to manufacture living, simplified people called robots.

What about an amoebic life-form that honors its ancestors by absorbing their protoplasm, thus retaining their memories?

He's been shot plenty of times by startled homeowners, but none of them have ever previously taken the steps of coalescing solid bullets from Limbo protoplasm and enchanting them to +5.

Sci-fi can have fun with undifferentiated masses of protoplasm like The Blob, but there's a lot of reasons to expect that cell walls are going to be pretty fundamental on one level or another.

Some examples from the book:> Below the world of worms and burrowing snails we may consider microscopic creatures like the ameba, who oozes along by pushing out lobes or ruffles of his single cell protoplasm and just flowing into them.

If you accept the ordinary laws of science, you have to suppose that human life and life in general on this planet will die out in due course: it is a stage in the decay of the solar system; at a certain stage of decay you get the sort of conditions of temperature and so forth which are suitable to protoplasm, and there is life for a short time in the life of the whole solar system.

Many variations, many forms of adaptation to its background are possible to an organism, including the possibility of existing for a while in a crippled, disabled or diseased condition, but the fundamental alternative of its existence remains the same: if an organism fails in the basic functions required by its nature—if an amoeba’s protoplasm stops assimilating food, or if a man’s heart stops beating—the organism dies.