cytoplasm 
Cytoplasm is a homogeneous, generally
            clear jelly-like material that fills cells. The cytoplasm consists of cytosol and the
            cellular organelles, except the cell nucleus. The cytosol is made up of water, salts,
            organic molecules and many enzymes that catalyze reactions. The cytoplasm plays an
            important role in a cell, serving as a "molecular soup" in which the organelles are
            suspended and held together by a fatty membrane. It is found within the plasma membrane
            of a cell and surrounds the nuclear envelope and the cytoplasmic
            organelles.
Function
The cytoplasm plays a
            mechanical role, that is, to maintain the shape and consistency of the cell, and to
            provide suspension to the organelles. It is also a storage place for chemical substances
            indispensable to life, which are involved in vital metabolic reactions, such as
            anaerobic glycolysis and protein
            synthesis.
protoplasm 
Protoplasm is the living
            substance inside the cell. At the simplest level, it is divisible into cytoplasm and
            nucleoplasm. It is also sometimes termed "bioplasm", (Beale: meaning the essential
            substance of living matter within a cell) and is distinct from non-living cell
            components lumped under "ergastic substances". Ergastic substances can occur in the
            protoplasm. In many plant cells most of the volume of the cell is not occupied by
            protoplasm, but by "tonoplast": a large water filled vacuole enclosed by a
            membrane. 
The idea that protoplasm is divisible into a ground substance
            called "cytoplasm" and a structural body called the Cell nucleus, reflects the more
            primitive knowledge of cell structure that preceded the development of powerful
            microscope of organic and inorganic substances, mysteriously directed by the nucleus and
            controlled by the cell membrane. Today, it is known that the cytoplasm is structurally
            very complex, and that protoplasm is living because of the complexity of the
            "cytoplasmic organeles" and their careful separation and orchestration of multiple
            chemical processes. 
Charles Darwin and his contemporaries viewed
            "protoplasm" as the sole content of a cell, in other words, cells were nothing but
            simple blobs composed of protoplasm. This simplified view of "cells biology"
            circumvented the problem of the origin of life that Darwin and others struggled with.
            However, that problem was later introduced in the 1950s when the complex structure of
            DNA was discovered. 
The concept of protoplasm is the essence of life,
            being something nearly sacred, induplicable by man. Organisms are able to ingest
            chemicals produced by nature and made in a laboratory. It can evolve into quite a number
            of other living creatures. 
Protoplasm exists in three forms: solid
            state, liquid state and sometimes a combined solid and liquid
            state. 
Whether the protoplasm is in either of the three forms depends
            upon the physiological state of the cell. 
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