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Answer: It is an organism that has no nucleus and has no organelles.
2.
What is the difference between a prokaryotic and a eukaryotic cell?
Answer: Eukaryotic cells are bigger and they contain a nucleus and organelles.
3.
What is the function of a nucleus?
Answer: It contains DNA
4.
Does a prokaryotic cell contain cytoplasm?
Answer: Yes but there are no organelles
5.
What is the one thing that both types of cell have?
Answer: Cytoplasm.
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Cells:
The structure of eukaryotic cells:
Cell surface membrane
Nucleus (containing chromosomes, consisting of protein bound,
linear DNA and one or more nucleoli)
Mitochondria
Chloroplasts (in plants and algae)
Golgi apparatus and golgi vesicle
Lysosomes (membrane bound organelle that releases hydrolytic
enzymes)
Ribosomes
Rough endoplasmic reticulum and smooth endoplasmic reticulum
Cell wall (in plants, algae and fungi)
Cell vacuole (in plants)
The structure of prokaryotic cells:
Prokaryotic cells are much smaller than eukaryotic cells. They
also differ from eukaryotic cells in having:
Cytoplasm that lacks membrane bound organelles
Smaller ribosomes
No nucleus instead they have a single circular DNA molecule that
is free in the cytoplasm and is not associated with proteins.
A cell wall that contains murein, a glycoprotein.
One or more plasmids
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