prokaryote
noun[C]
biologyspecialized(alsoprocaryote)uk/prəʊˈkær.i.əʊt/us/proʊˈker.i.oʊt/atypeoforganismthat has only onecelland does not have anucleus(=centralpart), forexampleabacterium:
原核生物The eukaryoticcellis muchlargerand moreefficientthan the procaryote,carryingmoregeneticmaterial.真核细胞比原核细胞大得多,效率更高,携带更多遗传物质。
All thecontentsof thecellsof prokaryoteorganisms(whichlackacellnucleus) arecontainedwithin thecytoplasm.原核生物(无细胞核的)细胞内所含物质都在细胞质中。
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eukaryote
- Thetermprokaryote isGreekfor "preliminarycell".
- Somescientistssuggestthat the procaryote is adegenerateeukaryote, one that haslostitsuniquefeatures.
- Consider first a single-cellorganism, a prokaryote.
Animal & plant biology - general words
- abiotic
- anatomical
- anatomically correct
- anti-Darwinian
- anti-Darwinism
- biodiversity
- botany
- Darwinism
- entomological
- entomologist
- eukaryote
- fight-or-flight
- morphology
- poisonous
- recolonization
- recolonize
- regeneration
- regenerative
- restimulate
- zoology
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