The eukaryotes (/juːˈkærioʊts, -əts/ yoo-KARR-ee-ohts, -əts) constitute the domain of Eukarya or Eukaryota, organisms whose cells have a membrane-bound...
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Prokaryote (section Relationship to eukaryotes)
nuclei are placed in a third domain, Eukaryota. Prokaryotes evolved before eukaryotes, and lack nuclei, mitochondria or most of the other distinct organelles...
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Eukaryogenesis (redirect from Crown eukaryotes)
eukaryotic cell and lineage, is a milestone in the evolution of life, since eukaryotes include all complex cells and almost all multicellular organisms. The...
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Amorphea (category Eukaryote unranked clades)
or to Malawimonada or being a paraphyletic group external to all other eukaryotes. The unikonts have a triple-gene fusion that is lacking in the bikonts...
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archaea that contain eukaryotic signature proteins. It appears that the eukaryotes, the domain that contains the animals, plants, and fungi, emerged within...
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cells do have a distinct nucleus (eukaryotes). In 1937 Édouard Chatton introduced the terms "prokaryote" and "eukaryote" to differentiate these organisms...
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This list of "sequenced" eukaryotic genomes contains all the eukaryotes known to have publicly available complete nuclear and organelle genome sequences...
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Plants are the eukaryotes that form the kingdom Plantae; they are predominantly photosynthetic. This means that they obtain their energy from sunlight...
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Microorganism (section Eukaryotes)
adult form are eukaryotes, including humans. However, many eukaryotes are also microorganisms. Unlike bacteria and archaea, eukaryotes contain organelles...
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Eukaryote hybrid genomes result from interspecific hybridization, where closely related species mate and produce offspring with admixed genomes. The advent...
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Protist (category Obsolete eukaryote taxa)
including extreme habitats. Their diversity, larger than for all other eukaryotes, has only been discovered in recent decades through the study of environmental...
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and other membrane-bound organelles are included in Eukarya and called eukaryotes. Non-cellular life, most notably the viruses, is not included in this...
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region. Prokaryotes are single-celled organisms such as bacteria, whereas eukaryotes can be either single-celled, such as amoebae, or multicellular, such as...
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Biology (section Eukaryotes)
chromosomes in eukaryotes, and circular chromosomes in prokaryotes. The set of chromosomes in a cell is collectively known as its genome. In eukaryotes, DNA is...
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considered universal to eukaryotes. The several plastids including chloroplasts are distributed among some but not all eukaryotes. There are also occasional...
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posterior' and κοντός (kontós) 'pole, i.e. flagellum') are a broad group of eukaryotes, including both the animal and fungus kingdoms. The opisthokonts, previously...
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which evidence suggests to be the evolutionary root of eukaryotes, thereby making eukaryotes members of the domain Archaea. While the features of Asgard...
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Susan C.; Brown, Matthew W.; Roger, Andrew J. (2014). "On the Age of Eukaryotes: Evaluating Evidence from Fossils and Molecular Clocks". Cold Spring Harbor...
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well as several other clades comprising some 300 species of unicellular eukaryotes. Amoebozoa and Opisthokonta are sometimes grouped together in a high-level...
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Archaea (section Relation to eukaryotes)
several metabolic pathways that are more closely related to those of eukaryotes, notably for the enzymes involved in transcription and translation. Other...
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D, Bowser SS, et al. (September 2012). "The revised classification of eukaryotes". The Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 59 (5): 429–493. doi:10.1111/j...
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Protein biosynthesis (redirect from Protein biosynthesis (eukaryotes))
Protein synthesis is a very similar process for both prokaryotes and eukaryotes but there are some distinct differences. Protein synthesis can be divided...
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the cytoplasm of all cells, including those of bacteria and archaea. In eukaryotes, it extends from the cell nucleus to the cell membrane and is composed...
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Tetracycline (section Anti-eukaryote use)
Tetracycline, sold under various brand names, is an oral antibiotic in the tetracyclines family of medications, used to treat a number of infections, including...
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Projectile use by non-human organisms (redirect from Projectile use by eukaryotes)
Although projectiles are commonly used in human conflict, projectile use by organisms other than humans is relatively rare. Most projectiles used by terrestrial...
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Excavata (section Origin of the Eukaryotes)
phylogenomic analyses, the group was shown to contain three widely separated eukaryote groups, the discobids, metamonads, and malawimonads. A current view of...
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SAR or Harosa is a highly diverse clade of eukaryotes, often considered a supergroup, that includes stramenopiles (heterokonts), alveolates, and rhizarians...
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construction (or level of organization) characteristic of many prokaryotes and eukaryotes and their means of motion. The term presently does not imply any specific...
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Unicellular organism (section Eukaryotes)
prokaryotes are unicellular and are classified into bacteria and archaea. Many eukaryotes are multicellular, but some are unicellular such as protozoa, unicellular...
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Symbiogenesis (category Eukaryote genetics)
proto-eukaryote engulfed a protomitochondrion, and this endosymbiont became an organelle, a major step in eukaryogenesis, the creation of the eukaryotes. Mitochondria...
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