deutoplasm
nounUK /ˈdjuːtəplæzəm/
US /ˈduːtəplæzəm/
The food part of an egg that feeds a baby animal as it grows.
The yellow yolk of a chicken egg is a kind of deutoplasm that feeds the chick.
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2. The nutrient-rich portion of an egg cell, as opposed to the living protoplasm.
Scientists studied the deutoplasm to understand how the embryo gets its energy.
3. Reserve material stored in an egg to nourish a developing organism.
Frog eggs contain deutoplasm arranged in layers.
4. The non-living, food-storing part of a cell's contents in a reproductive cell.
The deutoplasm was separated from the active cytoplasm during the experiment.