A prokaryote (/proʊˈkærioʊt, -ət/, less commonly spelled procaryote) is a single-cell organism whose cell lacks a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles...
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wall Capsule Pili Marine prokaryotes are marine bacteria and marine archaea. They are defined by their habitat as prokaryotes that live in marine environments...
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Nutrition (section Prokaryote)
unavailable. Prokaryotes, including bacteria and archaea, vary greatly in how they obtain nutrients across nutritional groups. Prokaryotes can only transport...
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They constitute a major group of life forms alongside the two groups of prokaryotes: the Bacteria and the Archaea. Eukaryotes represent a small minority...
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animals (including protists), plants (also including algae and fungi) and prokaryotes (bacteria and archaea), is Latin and binomial in form; this contrasts...
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The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) or Prokaryotic Code, formerly the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (ICNB) or...
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prokaryotic cells, which lack a nucleus but have a nucleoid region. Prokaryotes are single-celled organisms such as bacteria, whereas eukaryotes can...
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Circular chromosome (redirect from Circular prokaryote chromosome)
of circular DNA, unlike the linear chromosome of most eukaryotes. Most prokaryote chromosomes contain a circular DNA molecule – there are no free ends to...
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traditionally included all prokaryotes, the scientific classification changed after the discovery in the 1990s that prokaryotes consist of two very different...
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Prokaryotic cytoskeleton (redirect from Prokaryote cytoskeleton)
cytoskeleton is the collective name for all structural filaments in prokaryotes. It was once thought that prokaryotic cells did not possess cytoskeletons...
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Extremophile (redirect from Extremophilic prokaryotes)
An extremophile (from Latin extremus 'extreme', and Ancient Greek φιλία (philía) 'love') is an organism that is able to live (or in some cases thrive)...
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Ribosomal RNA (section In prokaryotes)
60% rRNA and 40% ribosomal proteins, though this ratio differs between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Although the primary structure of rRNA sequences can...
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Chromosome (section Prokaryotes)
origins. The genes in prokaryotes are often organized in operons, and do not usually contain introns, unlike eukaryotes. Prokaryotes do not possess nuclei...
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antibiotics. A possible transitional form of microorganism between a prokaryote and a eukaryote was discovered in 2012 by Japanese scientists. Parakaryon...
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Pan-genome (section Prokaryote pangenome)
elements that are shaped by selection and drift. Some studies point that prokaryotes pangenomes are the result of adaptive, not neutral evolution that confer...
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In prokaryote nomenclature, Candidatus (abbreviated Ca.; Latin for "candidate of Roman office") is used to name prokaryotic taxa that are well characterized...
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Unicellular organism (section Prokaryotes)
general categories: prokaryotic organisms and eukaryotic organisms. Most prokaryotes are unicellular and are classified into bacteria and archaea. Many eukaryotes...
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on protists, and Ruggiero et al., 2015, covering both eukaryotes and prokaryotes to the rank of Order, although both exclude fossil representatives. A...
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Fission (biology) (section Fission of prokaryotes)
Binary fission in a prokaryote...
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Phototroph (redirect from Phototrophic prokaryotes)
Phototrophs (from Ancient Greek φῶς, φωτός (phôs, phōtós) 'light', and τροφή (trophḗ) 'nourishment') are organisms that carry out photon capture to produce...
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the dinoflagellate protists. He first coined the terms "eukaryote" and "prokaryote" in a 1925 paper, but did not elaborate on the concept; Roger Stanier...
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Bacterial transcription (redirect from Transcription in prokaryotes)
Bacterial transcription is the process in which a segment of bacterial DNA is copied into a newly synthesized strand of messenger RNA (mRNA) with use of...
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(mostly in eukaryotes), or aspartic acid or histidine residues (mostly in prokaryotes). The phosphorylation of proteins is a major regulatory mechanism in...
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Enzyme Eukaryote Fermentation Metabolism Meiosis Mitosis Photosynthesis Prokaryote Genetics DNA Epigenetics Evolutionary developmental biology Gene expression...
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prokaryotes. The set of chromosomes in a cell is collectively known as its genome. In eukaryotes, DNA is mainly in the cell nucleus. In prokaryotes,...
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divided into several different kingdoms. Originally his split of the prokaryotes was into Eubacteria (now Bacteria) and Archaebacteria (now Archaea)....
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asexually, as in single-celled organisms such as bacteria and other prokaryotes, and parthenogenetic or apomictic multi-celled organisms. DNA barcoding...
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Cell physiology (section Prokaryotes)
structure.[page needed] There are two types of cells: prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Prokaryotes were the first of the two to develop and do not have a...
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Gene structure (section Prokaryotes)
long. Much of gene structure is broadly similar between eukaryotes and prokaryotes. These common elements largely result from the shared ancestry of cellular...
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nucleus (prokaryotes) and organisms whose cells do have a distinct nucleus (eukaryotes). In 1937 Édouard Chatton introduced the terms "prokaryote" and "eukaryote"...
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