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Protoplast

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protoplast [′prōd·ə‚plast]
(cell and molecular biology)
The living portion of a cell considered as a unit; includes the cytoplasm, the nucleus, and the plasma membrane.
Plant, fungal, or bacterial cell that has had its cell wall removed.

Protoplast 

the contents of a plant cell. The protoplast consists of the cell membrane, cytoplasm, and nucleus but lacks the cell wall.



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They are hyaline, have little evident cytoplasm but some protoplast, and they do not branch.
To provide the red algal species in a diet suitable for juvenile abalone three propagation methods; spore production, protoplast isolation, and fragment culture were investigated.
Electroporation is utilized for cell transformation applications, where plasmid DNA is used as the foreign matter to transform bacteria, yeast and plant protoplasts.
 
 
 
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