eukaryote
The term prokaryote is Greek for "preliminary cell".
Some scientists suggest that the procaryote is a degenerate eukaryote, one that has lost its unique features.
Consider first a single-cell organism, a prokaryote.

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Examples of prokaryote

prokaryote
But it is impossible to explain how prokaryotes cells evolved into eukaryotic cells (without creating intermediary organisms out of thin air).
The molecule is ubiquitous - it occurs in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and also in the genomes of mitochondria and chloroplasts.
Interestingly, high amino acid homologies were observed only to genes isolated from prokaryotes.
Cyclophilins have been isolated from a wide variety of eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
Consistent with this prediction is the fact that at present no senescing prokaryote species are known.
However, a greater need for fixed nitrogen would have imposed constraints on the rate of cyanobacterial proliferation - constraints that other prokaryotes would not have experienced.
Its primary structure is highly conserved from prokaryotes and archaebacteria to eukaryotes.
Biofilms may be considered as an ancestral selective event used by prokaryotes to adapt themselves to the environment.
In this study we estimated divergence times of the major groups of prokaryotes with shared proteins from the complete genomes and proteomes of 73 species.
The discoidin domain family revisited: new members from prokaryotes and a homology-based fold prediction.
On the origin of cells : a hypothesis for the evolutionary transformation from abiotic geochemistry to chemoauthotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells.
On the origins of cells : a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells.
They have been identified in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.
On the origin of cells : a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes, and from prokaryotes to nucleated cells.
On the origin of cells : a hypothesis for the evolutionary transitions from abiotic geochemistry to chemoautotrophic prokaryotes to nucleated cells.
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