We found 1 definitions of living substance from 1 different sources.
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living substance - the substance of a living cell (including cytoplasm and nucleus) | ||
protoplasm | ||
substance the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists; "DNA is the substance of our genes" | ||
cytol, cytoplasm the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of proteins that control cell metabolism | ||
karyoplasm, nucleoplasm the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell | ||
germ plasm, plasm the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes and genes |