Cytoplasm

Cytoplasm is a clear substance that is gel-like in the cell membrane but is on the outside of the nucleus. It contains mostly water with the addition of enzymes, organelles, salts and organic molecules. Cytoplasm will liquefy when it is stirred or agitated. It is often referred to as cytosol, meaning "substance of the cell." Cytoplasm supports and suspends cellular molecules and organelles. Organelles are tiny cellular structures within the cytoplasm that perform specific functions in bacteria or prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells of plants, animals and humans. Cytoplasm also helps to move things around in the cells such as hormones and dissolves any cellular waste that may occur. Cytoplasm moves items around in the cell in a process called cytoplasmic streaming. It also has numerous salts, so it conducts electricity very well. Cytoplasm is also a means of transportation for genetic material in cell division. It is a buffer to protect the genetic material of the cell and keep the organelles from damage when they move and collide with each other. If a cell would be without cytoplasm it could not retain its shape and would be deflated and flat. The organelles would not stay suspended in the solution of a cell without the support of cytoplasm. What Are the Parts of Cytoplasm? Prokaryotic cells belong to organisms such as bacteria, and they do not have a nucleus that is bound inside of the cells. In these types of cells, the cytoplasm is all of the contents of the cell tha...

Recent Examples on the Web That copy is processed a bit and then makes its way to the cytoplasm as messenger RNA (mRNA). — Alla Katsnelson And Casey Rentz, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019 Scientists had assumed that the cell’s molecular machinery carefully transported mRNA to the nucleus’s membrane and then pumped it out into the cytoplasm. — Alla Katsnelson And Casey Rentz, Discover Magazine, 3 May 2019 Unlike other DNA viruses that need to enter the nucleus to replicate, poxviruses can operate directly from the cell’s cytoplasm. — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 6 June 2022 Successful embryos had an initial cytokinesis, or division of the cell’s cytoplasm, lasting between 0 and 33 minutes, a gap between first and second cell divisions lasting 7.8 – 14.3 hours, and an interval between second and third cell divisions of 0 – 5.8 hours. — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 4 Oct. 2010 Leghemoglobin, which has a high affinity for oxygen, is able to buffer the concentration of free oxygen in the cytoplasm of the infected plant cells to ensure proper function of the oxygen-sensitive nitrogenase, the enzyme responsible for fixing atmospheric nitrogen. — Ashton Yoon, Discover Magazine, 26 Sep. 2017 Furthermore, these two types of L-Cry ended up in different parts of the worm’s cells: the fully photoreduced protein in the cytoplasm, where it was quickly destroyed, and the partly photoreduced L-Cry proteins in the nucleus. — Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023 For that ...