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To: neverdem

FWIW:

“The cell membrane or plasma membrane is a biological membrane that separates the interior of all cells from the outside environment.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Membrane


9 posted on 12/21/2011 1:05:19 PM PST by decimon
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To: decimon
Just googled plasma membrane ~ 8.5 million results
Just googled cell membrane ~ 12.5 million results

plasma

Wikipedia had no entry for plasma membrane. If the presser used cytoplasm, it would have been correct, but a cell's plasma is misleading. Plasma is extracellular. Intracellular fluid can be referred to as cytoplasm or cytosol.

11 posted on 12/21/2011 2:17:01 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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