2.

WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF METAPLASMIC MATERIALS IN

CELLS?
Metaplasmic materials consist of waste products and reserve
food
materials, and it may be in the form of water vacuoles, fat
droplets,
crystals, etc.
These metaplasmic materials aid in cell defense, structural
maintenance, and storage. In the cytoplasm there are various
lifeless substances (metaplasm). Some of these, like fat and
starch, are reserve food absorbed but not yet used by the cell,
others, like pigment and the cell-wall, are the lifeless products of
life activity. The amount of metaplasm is frequently vastly greater
than the amount of protoplasm in a cell. For example, a hen's egg
just before leaving the ovary is a cell about one inch in diameter
(the yolk of the egg). A small white disk on the upper surface
consists of concentrated protoplasm, but the greater part of this
enormous egg-cell is made up of stored yolk (metaplasm) to be
used as food by the chick in its development during incubation.

Works Cited
COMPANY, T. M. (n.d.). Manual in Animal Biology. TORONTO:
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited .

2. DEFINE PROTOPLASMIC MOVEMENT. STATE ITS IMPORTANCE IN

CELLULAR VIABILITY.
Protoplasmic movement is the movement of the fluid
substance (cytoplasm) within a plant or animal cell. The motion
transports nutrients, proteins, and organelles within cells.
It is important cell viability because living protoplasm possesses
in very many instances the inherent property of moving with a
rapidity which is perceptible with the aid of the microscope. The
movements, which show themselves by a change of form and
internal arrangement of the protoplasmic masses while the
volume remains apparently unchanged, may be also artificially
produced or influenced by what are called stimuli. The existence
of these movements is an intrinsic part of the general conditions
of life.

WORKS CITED
Prof. Dr. Tli. W. Engelmann. (n.d.). Physiology of Protoplasmic
Movement. Utrecht.
The Editors of Encyclopdia Britannica. (2016). Cytoplasmic
streaming. Retrieved 8 17, 2016, from Encyclopdia
Britannica: https://www.britannica.com/science/cytoplasmicstreaming