CONTENTS 



Chapter 1. 

 INTRODUCTION:- HISTORICAL SKETCH — Difficulties in the 



STUDY OF CYTOPLASM. RECOMMENDED METHOD .... 1 



Chapter 2. 



GENERAL FACTS ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE PLANT 

 CELL, ITS CYTOPLASM AND MORPHOLOGICAL CON- 

 STITUENTS:- The CYTOPLASM AND ITS PERMANENT INCLU- 

 SIONS — The PARAPLASM 5 



Chapter 3. 



THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND GENERAL CHARAC- 

 TERISTICS OF THE CYTOPLASM:- ITS APPEARANCE IN 

 living form — viscosity — rigidity — density — ecto- 

 plasmic layer — physiological properties of cytoplasm — 

 The cytoplasm with regard to vital dyes and fixed prepa- 

 rations 8 



Chapter U- 

 THE CHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF CYTOPLASM :- 



Proximate analysis of the cytoplasm — The chemical con- 

 stituents OF cytoplasm. Protides — LiPiDES — Various 



products and mineral SUBSTANCES — WATER .... 23 



Chapter 5. 



PHYSICO-CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION OF THE CYTO- 

 PLASM:- Electrical characteristics of proteins — Phys- 

 ical CONSTITUTION OF CYTOPLASM — CELLULAR CONSTANTS AND 



EQUILIBRIA — Ionic reaction of cytoplasm — Cellular 

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Chapter 6. 

 THE PLASTIDS:- The plastids — The chloroplasts in algae 



AND BRYOPHYTES — ThE CHLOROPLASTS IN VASCULAR PLANTS: 

 THEORY OF SCHIMPER — CHEMICAL NATURE AND STRUCTURE OF 



PLASTIDS — Movement of chloroplasts 40 



Chapter 7. 

 THE CHONDRIOME:- GENERAL CONCEPTIONS. What is meant 



BY CHONDRIOME IN ANIMAL CELLS — THE CHONDRIOME IN PLANT 



CELLS — The chondriome in fungi — Development of the 



CHONDRIOME — PflYSICAL AND HISTOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS 

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