(thing) by BioTech Mon Dec 16 2002 at 23:07:40

A mass of live protoplasm which is functionally independent of other living things. An amebic cell.

From the BioTech Dictionary at http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/. For further information see the BioTech homenode.

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(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:08:39

Bi"o*plast (?), n. [Gr. life + to form.] Biol.

A tiny mass of bioplasm, in itself a living unit and having formative power, as a living white blood corpuscle; bioblast.

 

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