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Thursday, 17 February 2011
Differences between Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic cells To understand more about the name of these cells,'karyose' comes from a greek words which means 'kernel' 'Pro' meaning 'before' and 'Eu' means 'true'.so now the word Prokaryotic means 'before a nucleus',Eukaryotic means 'processing a nucleus'. One of the difference you can see that is obvious is definetly the size, Eukayotic cells are the largest cells and it is 10 times bigger than the Prokaryotic cells, the Eukaryotic cell has two nucleus to sequester the DNA-related functions of the big Eukaryotic cell to a smaller chamber.the Prokaryotic cell does not need this function as it is smaller and everything related to the cell are very close together. (http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/fancher/prokeuk.htm) The Second difference about the 2 cells are that Eukaryotic DNA is linear and Prokaryotic DNA is circular. ![]() |
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