Cytoplasm It is one of the parts, basic elements of the cell, which is located between the plasma membrane and the nucleus, in eukaryotic cells, and in prokaryotic cells that, since they do not have a nucleus, use the cytoplasm to house their material genetic.
Basically, the cytoplasm is in charge of developing all the chemical reactions of living beings and is eminently conformed by water and also by ionized mineral substances and organic substances such as enzymes and proteins.
Its relevant functions are three: nutrition, since in it those substances are incorporated that will be later transformed to release energy; storage, takes care of storing certain substances that will be used in the future and it is important that they are there while waiting for your need to use them; and the structural, since the cytoplasm is that part that gives the cell its shape and that will be the starting point of all its movements.
If it is observed in detail through the microscope, it will be possible to appreciate that one of its characteristic features is its appearance. grainy that it boasts and that is due to the large number of organelles (cell organs), ribosomes, among others, that its conformation presents. Ribosomes play the essential role of synthesizing proteins.
Without a doubt the microscope was key in advancing the knowledge of the cytoplasm. The detailed and precise physical study that this device allowed to bring to light much knowledge about the cytoplasm, the one indicated above in the granular presentation, and on the other hand it also allowed to determine its viscosity and the identification of the cytoskeleton, which are structures with the shape of a hair within the cytoplasm and that is feasible to find in many types of cells.
