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I have to identify the two major types & their significance to the functioning of antibiotics!!!??? the two parts are Eukaryotes & Prokaryote

Answer 1

The eukaryotes include ourselves, other animals, plants and fungi and a rich variety of micro-organisms (protists). The protists include parasites that are so successful as to compromise the economies of entire countries. Eukaryotes visibly influence the nature of our world. Our concepts of beauty, logic and spirit are arguably derived from our observations of the eukaryotes.

The Eukaryota - along with the Archaea and Eubacteria - make up the three major branches of living organisms (viruses excepted). Eukaryotes are usually distinguished from other forms of life by the presence of nuclei and the presence of a cytoskeleton. The nuclei contain genetic information which is organized into discrete chromosomes and contained within a membrane-bounded compartment. The word 'eukaryote' means 'true nuclei'. The cytoskeleton is a complex array of proteins which provides the structural framework for the eukaryotic cell and its components, inclusive of the nucleus. The cytoskeleton has been widely exploited in the evolutionary diversification of eukaryotes. The cytoskeleton and organelles are discussed in more detail in the 'Characteristics' section below.


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Three stages of movement of chromosomes during division of a nucleus in a newt lung epithelial cell.
Photograph copyright © 1998 Rudolf Oldenbourg.

Eukaryotes probably emerged from prokaryotic ancestry about 1.6 - 2.1 billion years ago (Knoll, 1992). The evolutionary diversification of eukaryotes has involved invention of organelles, and their modification. Now, about 60 types of eukaryotes can be distinguished on the basis of their cellular organization (Patterson, 1999). One of these lines (the opisthokonts) includes the million or so species of animals and the fungi, another (the Viridaeplantae) is formed of the green algae and the land plants. The majority of the lines of eukaryotes are traditionally classified in a paraphyletic assemblage of mostly unicellular organisms referred to as the protists.

Characteristics
What makes a eukaryote a eukaryote? The eukaryotes are distinguished from prokaryotes by the structural complexity of the cells - characterized by having many functions segregated into semi-autonomous regions of the cells (organelles), and by the cytoskeleton.

The most evident organelle in most cells is the nucleus, and it is from the presence of this organelle that the eukaryotes get their name. Most cells have a single nucleus, some have more (some have thousands) and others like red blood cells of ourselves have none - but they can be shown to derive from cells with nuclei. Nuclei contain most of the genetic material of a cell - with other elements of the genome located in mitchondria and plastids (if those organelles are also present). The nucleus is bounded by a membranous envelope. The nuclear envelope is part of the endomembrane system that extends to include the endoplasmic reticulum, dictyosomes (Golgi apparatus) and the cell or plasma membrane that encloses the cell. The envelope is perforated by nuclear pores which allow compounds to pass between the nucleus and the surrounding cytoplasm. Some protists have more than one kind of nucleus - using one to retain a copy of the genome for purposes of reproduction, and another in which some genes have been greatly amplified, to regulate activities. Within the nucleus, the genes are located on a number of chromosomes. The total amount of DNA in a nucleus measuring less than one hundredth of a millimetre across may stretch to over a metre. When not in use this is kept within a nucleus measuring only a few microns across by being bundled up in superhelical arrays.

The cytoskeleton is comprised of a rich array of proteins. The major ones are tubulin (which forms microtubules) and actin (forming microfilaments) and a myriad of interacting proteins which effect movement or create the skeletal architecture of cells. The cytoskeleton provides shape for the cell and support for membranous organelles. It also provides anchorage for motility proteins which transport materials within the cell and cause deformations which bring about the movements of the entire cell - or organism.


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Examples of cytoskeletal architecture: metaphase chromosomes (left), kinetids (center), cytoskeleton of Euplotes (right).
Left and right photographs copyright © 2000 David J. Patterson. Center photograph copyright © 1996 Rudolf Oldenbourg.

Many metabolic functions are carried out within membrane bound organelles. The organelles include the endoplasmic reticulum, dictyosomes (= Golgi apparatus), lysosomes, and peroxisomes. Other membrane bound organelles that are not always present include chloroplasts (in plants, algae and organisms which have developed symbiotic associations with plastids, algae or plants) and mitochondria or hydrogenosomes. Protists (mostly microbial eukaryotes) have membrane-bounded organelles not found in most other eukaryotes - such as contractile vacuoles and extrusomes. Non-membrane-bound organelles include cytoskeletal elements (such as microtubular constructs made up of tubulin, or filamentous structures often incorporating actin), contractile systems (actin-myosin assemblages, spasmin/centrin) or other motility devices (mitotic spindle, myonemes, cilia, flagella).

The Protista
The protists are a paraphyletic group consisting of those eukaryotes which are not animals, true fungi or green plants. Using ultrastructural characteristics, we can identify about 60 types of protists, and the relationships among these lineages are not clear.

There are estimated to be about 200,000 named species of protists. Some of the groups of protists contain only one or a few genera or species, but others encompass an immense diversity of organizational types (including multicellularity) which eclipses that found in some of the more familiar animals or plants. A particularly good example of this is the territory referred to as the stramenopiles. This group embraces a quantity of photosynthetic activitiy second only to the land plants, and it includes fungal like organisms (Oomycetes), parasitic protozoa (opalines and Blastocystis), free-living protozoa (some heliozoa and flagellates) as well as various unicellular algae (chrysophytes) and muticellular algae (kelps and other brown algae).

Protists have traditionally been classified into the following non-monophyletic adaptive groups:

Flagellates
Amoebae
Algae
Parasitic Protists
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
General relationships among eukaryotes
Our understanding of the phylogenetic relationships among the eukaryotes is not yet resolved nor stable. Two large bodies of data have contributed most to our current understanding of the diversity and interrelationships of eukaryotic lineages.

Information derived from electron microscopy on the structure of the cells has revealed consistent patterns among groups for which the monophyly is not doubted (such as the ciliates or the red algae). The same approach has then been applied to many protists, and has revealed that there are about 80 patterns of organization (Patterson, 1999). These have now been clustered into about 60 lineages. Molecular analyses, when available, usually confirm these groupings.

The second body of data derives from comparative molecular data - initially focussing on the genes which code for small subunit ribosomal RNA. As it became evident that the insights might be distorted by problems in the methods of phylogenetic inference, and that our emerging insights (trees) were imprecise, so an increasing number of genes have been called upon to identify which elements of our understanding are secure and which are unrealiable. The position now is less confident than a decade earlier, and the means of resolving conflict among molecular insights has yet to be agreed upon (Philippe & Adoutte, 1998; Katz, 1999).

The most comprehensive molecular trees are still those based on analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA (e.g. Cavalier-Smith, 1993; Sogin & Silberman, 1998). The early molecular trees indicated that the earliest branches of eukaryote evolution are represented by microsporidia, trichomonads and diplomonads. These organisms lack dictyosomes, peroxisomes and conventional mitochondria. In addition, the organization of their cytoskeleton was simple and they had a relatively small number of membranous organelles when compared to more recently evolved taxa such as plants, animals and fungi. Organisms located higher in the tree had more organellar diversity, including the presence of dictyosomes, various membranous compartments and mitochondria and chloroplasts. The consistency of the molecular and structural insights led to models that these taxa were primitively amitochondriate, had derived early in eukaryote evolution, and could reveal to us the sequence in which the eukaryotic cell was assembled.

Early trees included an unresolved polytomy for the early-branching amitochondriate protists (Leipe et al., 1993). It was followed by the separation of the Euglenozoa (Euglena + other euglenids, trypanosomes + other kinetoplastids), a few other taxa such as the Heterolobosea (acrasid slime moulds, and the agents of amoebic meningitis - Naegleria), and a variety of amoeboid organisms (Sogin et al., 1996). The remaining organisms formed a cluster that was referred to as the eukaryotic crown and was interpreted as the nearly simultaneous separation of animals, plants, fungi and several complex protist assemblages (Knoll, 1992).

Within the last decade, it became increasingly evident that this understanding was not accurate (Roger, 1999). There is a problem that lineages which have shown rapid rates of evolution (have long branch lengths) are drawn together at the base of dendrograms created by programs that sought to interpret molecular data as evolutionary trees. Secondly, a variety of the 'amitochondriate' organisms have been shown to have genes for mitochondrial proteins suggesting that they are not primitively amitochondriate but secondarily amitochondriate. The presence of small membranous organelles in a number of these taxa suggests that they contain pre-mitochondria or reduced mitochondria. Enhanced molecular data provided evidence of different associations - the microsporidia were not organisms at the base of the tree but were a specialised kind of fungus and derived late in eukaryotic evolution, their structural simplicity being attributed to regression (Edlind et al., 1996; Keeling & Doolittle, 1996; Li et al., 1996; Germot et al., 1997; Edlind, 1998; Fast et al. 1999; Hirt et al., 1999; Keeling et al., 2000; Van de Peer et al., 2000). Molecular data also identified new candidates for the most primitive eukaryotes - Reclinomonas (an excavate flagellate) has a mitochondrial genome more replete with genes than any other and may be related to one of the first eukaryotes to acquire mitochondria (Lang et al., 1997). Yet molecular trees do not concur with each other (Katz, 1999). The consequence of these insights has been to demolish the model of the 1990's, but not to replace it with something better.

Yet, the intervening period has seen progress. At the beginning of the 1990's, we could recognise about 80 different types of eukaryotes (Patterson, 1994). In the intervening period, perhaps 10 further types of protists were being or have been added - either through the efforts of bioprospectors or through more detailed study of many of the underdescribed genera of protists. Yet only about 60 lineages are currently recognised. That is - about half of the lineages have found homes. We have now agreed that the sister group to the Metazoa are the collar-flagellates (choanoflagellates), and that these, together with the fungi and chytrids form a lineage (the opisthokonts), and that the opisthokonts contain two types of spore-forming organisms (Microsporidia and Myxozoa) that used to be considered as protists but are now seen as derived from multicellular organisms (Microsporidia from fungi, Myxozoa from coelenterates or bilateria); the ciliates, apicomplexan sporozoa and dinoflagellates are regarded as forming a lineage (the alveolates), the stramenopiles is now home to the brown algae, diatoms, chrysophytes, opalines, Blastocystis, some heliozoa, some heterotrophic flagellates and so on), and new groups - such as the excavates (including Giardia and the other diplomonads, retortamonads, and various heterotrophic flagellates such as Carpediemonas and the quadriflagellated Trimastix) - continue to be promoted. The resolution to the interrelationships of all eukaryotes looks as if it will reside in the piece by piece assembly of the jig-saw puzzle, rather than in the broad sweep approach which gave us so much confidence a decade ago.

Phylogenetic relationships among the opisthokonts
The term 'opisthokont' was introduced by Copeland (Copeland, 1956) for the chytrids - a small group of parasitic protists, now commonly included within the fungi. The name refers to the posterior (opistho) location of the flagellum (kont) in swimming cells. As comparative molecular biology indicated that the fungi and animals were related, so the term was applied to the (animals + fungi) clade (Cavalier-Smith & Chao, 1995). This is not entirely satisfactory, but an alternative name for the (animals + fungi) clade has yet to emerge.

The argument that the choanoflagellates gave rise to sponges and these in turn to the diploblastic and triploblastic animals is one with a long history, but an understanding of the origins of animals was impeded by spurious arguments based on reference to mythical ancestors (Hanson, 1977; Willmer, 1990). The relatedness of the collar flagellates (choanoflagellates) to the Metazoa was confirmed by comparative analyses of ribosomal RNA (Kim et al., 1999; Wainright et al., 1993), and the basal status of the sponges within Metazoa is widely accepted (Jenner & Schram 1999).

The relatedness of extended animal and fungal clades was not suggested by comparative morphology, but was revealed by comparative molecular biology (Baldauf & Palmer, 1993; Wainright et al., 1993; Sogin & Silberman, 1998; Baldauf, 1999). Subsequently, similarities in the anchorage systems of flagella of chytrid fungi and choanoflagellates have been identified, corroborating the molecular perspective (Moestrup, unpublished).

Microsporidian and myxosporan protists as members of the opisthokonts
Microsporidia are mostly unicellular intracellular parasites and have traditionally been classified within the protozoan group 'Sporozoa'. With the advent of molecular phylogeny, they were placed at the base of the tree of eukaryotes because of their gene structure and comparisons of small subunit ribosomal RNA. They also have a very simple cellular organization which corroborated this insight. The extension of comparative molecular biology to embrace more genes has led to the view that the microsporidia are a derived type of fungus, an argument supported by the presence of a distinctive signature sequence (Kamaishi et al., 1996; Keeling et al., 2000). There are no structural synapomorphies tying the microsporidia to the fungi or to a subset of the fungi.

Myxozoa (= Myxosporidia) were traditionally regarded as a type of protist which produces multicellular spores. The spore contains 'cells' which could eject filaments. In the 1970's it became evident that the appearance and development of the filaments co-incided with that of the nematocysts of the coelenterates (Metazoa). Molecular evidence has confirmed that Myxozoa are allied to the Metazoa, but molecular approaches are as yet unable to resolve particular relationships (Siddall et al., 1995; Smothers et al., 1994).

Symbioses, Endosymbioses and the Origin of the Eukaryotic State
Symbiosis is the process in which unrelated organisms come together and form a stable association - as do lichens (algae and fungi) and coral reefs (coelenterates and dinoflagellate algae). This idea was promulgated at the turn of the 20th century (Mereschkowsky, 1910) and promoted later in the same century by Lynn Margulis (Margulis, 1970). Symbiosis has been and still is an important driving force in the evolution of eukaryotes. Through this mechanism, complementary metabolic capabilities, life cycles, and competences of different organisms have been brough together to create an amalgam that is greater than the sum of the parts. Symbiosis has provided a selective advantage to organisms when responding to changing environments. The close proximity of partners in symbiosis creates opportunities for coevolution of genomes and for the lateral transfer of genetic information between compartments or between evolutionary lineages. Microorganisms that engage in symbioses may be either extracellular or intracellular. Examples of extracellular symbionts include lichenized fungi and various bacteria which reside within metazoan digestive systems. There are also extracellular bacteria which live on the surface of eukaryotic microorganisms.


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Symbiotic bacteria (one is indicated by the arrow) coat the surface of a devescovinid flagellate (a member of the parabasalids), its flagella are to the right.
Photograph copyright © 2000 Mitchell L. Sogin

Intracellular symbionts are referred to as endosymbionts, and their impact upon eukaryote evolution has been especially profound. Endosymbiosis was important in the evolution of even the earliest diverging eukaryotic cells. In the most radical views of eukaryotic origins it is suggested (but not proven) that formation of the eukaryotic cell was a consequence of genome fusions between a host cell and endosymbionts representing distinct evolutionary lineages (Sogin, 1991; Forterre et al., 1992; Lake & Rivera, 1994; Golding & Gupta, 1995; Katz, 1998, 1999).

The role of endosymbionts in the origins of mitochondria and chloroplasts is more convincing. The ancestors of these organelles were initially independent bacterial organisms which were acquired by or invaded early eukaryotes. It is believed that by enriching the array of metabolic processes available to the cell, the symbionts conferred a selective advantage to ancestral eukaryotes. The consortium was favoured, and the endosymbionts became integrated in the operations of the cell as organelles.

In the case of mitochondria, ultrastructure and molecular data indicate that they are derived from the alpha-proteo bacteria (Yang et al., 1985). This particular association provided a means for early eukaryotic cells--previously limited to anaerobic metabolism--to carry out aerobic respiration. The benefit is that this association allowed oxygen to be used as a terminal electron acceptor, and the energy derived from ingested food increased by a factor of almost 20. There is now considerable controversy about the timing of this endosymbiotic event and whether there are any remnants of pre-mitochondrial euklaryotes. Ribosomal RNA trees indicate that the earliest diverging eukaryotes (e.g. diplomonads, trichomonads) lack mitochondria and this was thought to indicate that these taxa were primitively without mitochondria (see Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships). However, there is now increasing evidence that genes normally found in alpha-proteo bacteria are also present in the nucleus of amitochondriate prostists and that mitochondria were present much earlier than previously thought, but have now been lost from some early eukaryotes (Roger, 1999).

The origins of chloroplasts are also rooted in endosymbiotic processes. Probably later than the acquisition of mitochondria, a cyanobacterium took up residence in an ancient eukaryote. These primary endosymbionts were destined to become the chloroplasts which are found in eukaryotic algae. Their role may have been to add autotrophic competency to heterotrophic cells, or perhaps to provide oxygen to improve efficiency of metabolism. Chloroplasts have proven to be promiscuous, and some eukaryotic algae acquired their chloroplasts through secondary endosymbioses in which the plastid of one eukaryotic algal species was transferred to and became established in different eukaryotic clades (Delwiche, 1999). At this time, there is no evidence that any of the other familiar components of eukaryotic cells were acquired by symbiosis.

Prokaryotes (pro-KAR-ee-ot-es) (from Old Greek pro- before + karyon nut or kernel, referring to the cell nucleus, + suffix -otos, pl. -otes; also spelled "procaryotes") are organisms without a cell nucleus (= karyon), or any other membrane-bound organelles. Most are unicellular, but some prokaryotes are multicellular).

Contents [hide]
1 Relationship to eukaryotes
2 Genes
3 Colonies
4 Structure
5 Environment
6 Evolution of prokaryotes
7 References
8 See also
9 External links



[edit] Relationship to eukaryotes
A major distinction between prokaryotes and eukaryotes (meaning true kernel, also spelled "eucaryotes") is that eukaryotes have "true" nuclei containing their DNA, whereas the genetic material in prokaryotes is not membrane-bound. Eukaryotic organisms, such as humans, may be unicellular or multicellular. The difference between the structure of prokaryotes and eukaryotes is so great that it is considered to be the most important distinction among groups of organisms. Most prokaryotes are bacteria, and the two terms are often treated as synonyms. In 1977, Carl Woese proposed dividing prokaryotes into the Bacteria and Archaea (originally Eubacteria and Archaebacteria) because of the significant genetic differences between the two. This arrangement of Eukaryota (also called "Eukarya"), Bacteria, and Archaea is called the three-domain system replacing the traditional two-empire system.

The cell structure of prokaryotes differs greatly from eukaryotes in many ways. The defining characteristic is the absence of a nucleus or nuclear envelope. Prokaryotes also were previously considered to lack cytoskeletons and do lack membrane-bound cell compartments such as vacuoles, endoplasmic reticulum/endoplasmic reticula, Golgi apparatus, mitochondria, and chloroplasts. In eukaryotes, the latter two perform various metabolic processes and are believed to have been derived from endosymbiotic bacteria. In prokaryotes similar processes occur across the cell membrane; endosymbionts are extremely rare. Prokaryotes also have cell walls, while some eukaryotes, particularly animals, do not. Both eukaryotes and prokaryotes have structures called ribosomes, which produce protein. Prokaryotes are usually much smaller than eukaryotic cells.

Taking into account membrane bound organelles, prokaryotes also differ from eukaryotes in that they contain only a single loop of DNA stored in an area named the nucleoid. The DNA of the eukaryote is found on chromosomes. Prokaryotic DNA also lacks the proteins found in eukaryotic DNA. Prokaryotes have a larger surface area to volume ratio. This gives the Prokaryotes a higher metabolic rate, a higher growth rate and thus a smaller generation time as compared to the Eukaryotes.Landon Schuttler


[edit] Genes
Nearly all prokaryotes have a single circular chromosome contained within a conglomeration of ribosomes and other proteins related to a transcription and translation region called the nucleoid, as opposed to the well defined, double membrane bound eukaryotic nucleus. Certain exceptions do apply, however. For example, Borrelia burgdorferi and the genus Streptomyces contain linear chromosomes, like the eukaryotes. Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has two circular chromosomes, the smaller of which contains most of the genes responsible for virulence.

Most notable, however, are the plasmids, which are small (about 1 to 10 thousand base pairs), circular pieces of DNA that are replicated by the host's DNA replication machinery, but whose genes are not absolutely critical for general survival. In nature, they usually contain special genes that confer some type of selective advantage such as antibiotic resistance, virulence, or gene transfer mechanisms. In genetic engineering artificially introduced plasmids carry genes to be expressed and studied.

Prokaryotes also differ from eukaryotes in the structure, packing, density, and arrangement of their genes on the chromosome. Prokaryotes have incredibly compact genomes compared to eukaryotes, mostly because prokaryote genes lack introns and large non-coding regions between each gene. Whereas nearly 95% of the human genome does not code for proteins or RNAs or includes a gene promoter, nearly all of the prokaryote genome codes or controls something. Prokaryote genes are also expressed in groups, known as operons, instead of individually, as in eukaryotes. In a prokaryote cell, all genes in an operon(three in the case of the famous lac operon) are transcribed on the same piece of RNA and then made into separate proteins, whereas if these genes were native to eukaryotes, they each would have their own promoter and be transcribed on their own strand of mRNA. This lesser degree of control over gene expression contributes to the simplicity of the prokaryotes as compared to the eukaryotes. It is worth noting that one of the most convincing pieces of evidence for the endosymbiotic theory of the origin of mitochondria is that mitochondrial genomes look like prokaryotic genomes, replete with circular genomes, operons, and plasmids, while that of the host follows the eukaryotic model.

Reproduction is most often asexual, through binary fission, where the chromosome is duplicated and attaches to the cell membrane, and then the cell divides in two. However, they show a variety of parasexual processes where DNA is transferred between cells, such as transformation and transduction.


[edit] Colonies
While prokaryotes are nearly always unicellular, some are capable of forming groups of cells called colonies. Unlike many eukaryotic multicellular organisms, each member of the colony is undifferentiated and capable of free-living (but consider cyanobacteria, a very successful prokaryotic group which does exhibit definite cell differentiation). Individuals that make up such bacterial colonies most often still act independent of one another. Colonies are formed by organisms that remain attached following cell division, sometimes through the help of a secreted slimy layer.


[edit] Structure

The sizes of prokaryotes relative to other organisms and biomolecules.Recent research indicates that all prokaryotes actually do have cytoskeletons albeit more primitive than those of eukaryotes. Besides homologues of actin and tubulin (MreB and FtsZ) the helically arranged building block of flagellum, flagellin is one of the most significant cytoskeletal protein of bacteria as it provides structural backgrounds of chemotaxis, the basic cell physiological response of bacteria. At least some prokaryotes also contain intracellular structures which can be seen as primitive organelles. Membranous organelles (a. k .a. intracellular membranes) are known in some groups of prokaryotes, such as vacuoles or membrane systems devoted to special metabolic properties, e. g. photosynthesis or chemolithotrophy. Additionally, some species also contain protein-enclosed microcompartments mostly associated with special physiological properties (e. .g. carboxysomes or gas vacuoles).


[edit] Environment
Prokaryotes are found in nearly all environments on earth. Archaea in particular seem to thrive in harsh conditions, such as high temperatures or salinity. Organisms such as these are referred to as extremophiles. Many prokaryotes live in or on the bodies of other organisms, including humans.


[edit] Evolution of prokaryotes
It is generally accepted that the first living cells were some form of prokaryote and may have developed out of protobionts. Fossilized prokaryotes approximately 3.5 billion years old have been discovered, and prokaryotes are perhaps the most successful and abundant organism even today. In contrast the eukaryote only appeared between approximately 1.7 and 2.2 billion years ago.[1] While Earth is the only known place where prokaryotes exist, some have suggested structures within a Martian meteorite should be interpreted as fossil prokaryotes; this is open to considerable debate and skepticism.

Prokaryotes diversified greatly throughout their long existence. The metabolism of prokaryotes is far more varied than that of eukaryotes, leading to many highly distinct types of prokaryotes. For example, in addition to using photosynthesis or organic compounds for energy like eukaryotes do, prokaryotes may obtain energy from inorganic chemicals such as hydrogen sulfide.

This has enabled the bacteria to thrive and reproduce. Today, archaebacteria can be found in the cold of Antarctica and in the hot Yellowstone springs.

The Eukaryote/Prokaryote Divide
Main differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes:
Nature and arrangement of genetic material.
Membrane-bounded organelles.
Protein synthesis machinery, 70S vs. 80S ribosomes.
The chemistry of the cell wall (where present).



Other differences:

Endospores in some prokaryotes.
Gas vesicles in some prokaryotes.
Flagellum structure/function.
Microtubules in eukaryotes.
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Answer 2

their both cells. Eukaryotes contains a nucleus. And Prolaryote doesn't
Check out the website at the bottom

Answer 3

Prokaryote
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokaryote

Eukaryota
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eukaryota

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokaryote
http://web.mit.edu/esgbio/www/cb/prok_euk.html
http://www.gwu.edu/~darwin/BiSc151/Eukaryotes/Eukaryotes.html
http://www-micro.msb.le.ac.uk/109/Prokaryotes.html
http://www.biology.arizona.edu/cell_bio/tutorials/pev/page2.html

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