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PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELLSGENERAL BIOLOGY
Prokaryotic Cell
● This can be compared to a studio-type of a
condominium unit because of the lack of compartments.
● Prokaryotic organisms are metabolically diverse
because they can utilize different nutrients and energy
sources and they can inhabit all types of environment
on Earth.
● All bacteria that include the organisms of domains
Archaea and Bacteria are considered as prokaryotes.
Eukaryotic Cell
● This is comparable to a mansion which has several rooms or
compartments.
● Domain Eukarya, which includes protists, fungi, plants, and animals,
is eukaryotic.
EUKARYOTES PROKARYOTES
PRESENCE OF NUCLEUS The genetic material is enclosed in The genetic material is enclosed in
the nucleus of eukaryotes the nucleoid of prokaryotes
CELL WALL AND CELL - present in most eukaryotic - Present in almost all
MEMBRANE cells (these are not found prokaryotic cells
in animals and most - Cell wall is made up of
protists) peptidoglycan
- Cell wall is either made up - They do not have sterols in
of cellulose as in plants the cell membrane but
and chitin in fungi. have a sterol-like lipid
- The sterols that are component called
present in the cell hopanoid.
membrane are cholesterol
(animals), phytosterol
(plants) and ergosterol
(fungi).
ENDOMEMBRANE AND OTHER - Present in eukaryotic cells - Not present in prokaryotic
ORGANELLES cells
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