prokaryote
Bacteria and archaea are single-celled organisms without nuclei. But the word microbe is also used to refer to single-celled eukaryotes, things like amoeba.
Eukaryotes are the group of organisms that includes humans and other mammals.
Fewer than 10 percent of eukaryotes - plants and animals - have genes acquired via horizontal gene transfer.
Until now, the genomes of eukaryotes have been analysed using a laborious approach that sequences each chromosome a bit at a time.

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anatomic
anatomical
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biologist
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naturalist
overstimulate
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photosynthetically
poikilothermic
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Cells

Examples of eukaryote

eukaryote
Microsatellites are ubiquitous among eukaryotes and have been described from a great variety of taxa.
These pathways differ significantly from those in eukaryotes and thus present an important opportunity to compare different natural design solutions to similar biological needs.
The molecule is ubiquitous - it occurs in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and also in the genomes of mitochondria and chloroplasts.
Within eukaryotes, these elements are found within nuclear, mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes.
Cyclophilins have been isolated from a wide variety of eukaryotes and prokaryotes.
Significant differences exist between the process of protein synthesis initiation in eubacteria and eukaryotes.
In turn, our investigations have led to the proposal of a differential equation explaining, overall, phenomenologically, the growth mechanism of eukaryotes.
Prior to 1977, scientists believed that living organisms fell into two categories - bacteria and eukaryotes.
In eukaryotes, the dynamic discrimination between ' good ' and ' bad ' start sites is taken to a new level of complexity and multiple factors are involved.
The regulation of initiation codon recognition also appears to differ between bacteria and eukaryotes.
Its primary structure is highly conserved from prokaryotes and archaebacteria to eukaryotes.
Recombination of protein domains facilitated by co-translational folding in eukaryotes.
The eukaryote consists of various cells with different functions and properties.
In multicellular eukaryotes, the germline goes through several cell generations per organism generation, and thus the per generation mutation rate includes several cell generations.
Is our understanding of stimulus control improved by likening it to the "appearance of eukaryotes in biological evolution"?
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