protoplast

For this, the simplest form of the protoplast community is a single pair.

Verse cxxiv., protoplast, the original, the thing first formed.

The differentiation into nucleus and cytoplasm represents a division of labour in the protoplast.

Or, supposing such protoplast pairs to have been numerous, what were the respective original locations of each?

Fortunately the time was already past when protoplast patients were looked upon as something mildly freakish and to be pitied.