prokaryotes

1. Organisms whose cells do not have a nucleus in which DNA is housed and which lack many of the organelles found in more advanced cells. The kingdom of Monera or Prokaryotae is composed of single-celled prokaryotes. (Compare eukaryotes.)

It is thought that prokaryotes were the first cells to appear on Earth.

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Bacteria are the best-understood prokaryotes, and because of their simple genetic structure, provided the team with the ideal host to analyze the mechanisms and machinery involved in the ribosome-RNAP coupling during gene expression.

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These findings deviate from the currently assumed potential of prokaryotes and biogeochemical processes related to climate change.

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The results indicated that prokaryotes from SL to DL are closely associated with climate change drivers.

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Analyzing microbes in Tirez soil samples from 2002 and 2021 for a study in Scientific Reports, Fairén and his colleagues found that single-celled organisms called prokaryotes had adapted to thrive in extremely dry sediments.

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“We are finding protein families in prokaryotes that have been thought to exist only in eukaryotes.”

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