plasmodium

• When the plasmodium is trying to amplify itself in the blood cells, it is creating repeated attacks of the disease on the body. —  CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
• The plasmodium, as the mass of protoplasm is called, may be made to creep upon a slide in the following way: A tumbler is filled with water and placed in a saucer filled with sand. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• If now a bit of the substance upon which the plasmodium is growing is placed against the bottom of the slide on the side where the stream of water is, the protoplasm will creep up against the current of water and spread over the slide, forming delicate threads in which most active streaming movements of the central granular protoplasm may be seen under the microscope, and the ends of the branches may be seen to push forward much as we saw in the amœba. —  Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
• The story of the plasmodium is one of the most beautiful illustrations of the fact that there is no such thing as useless or unpractical knowledge. —  Preventable Diseases
• "Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium, which is transmitted via the bites of infected mosquitoes.

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