eukaryote
noun[C]
biologyspecializeduk/juːˈkær.i.əʊt/us/juːˈker.i.oʊt/atypeoforganismthat has one or morecellseach with aseparatenucleus(=centralpart)containingchromosomes, whichincludesallanimalsandplants:
真核生物"Animal" is anamereservedformulticellulareukaryotes—organisms that arebiggerthan asinglecelland whosecellshave anucleus.“动物”是多细胞真核生物的专用名词,即比单细胞更大,并且细胞内有细胞核的生物。
Though giardia is a single-celledorganism, itbelongsto the eukaryotes.虽然梨形鞭毛虫是一种单细胞生物,但它属于真核生物。
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prokaryote
- Bacteria and archaea are single-celledorganismswithoutnuclei. But the wordmicrobeis also used to refer to single-celled eukaryotes, things likeamoeba.
- Eukaryotes are thegroupoforganismsthatincludeshumansand othermammals.
- Fewer than 10percentof eukaryotes -plantsandanimals- havegenesacquiredviahorizontalgenetransfer.
- Until now, thegenomesof eukaryotes have beenanalysedusing alaboriousapproachthatsequenceseachchromosomeabitat atime.
Animal & plant biology - general words
- abiotic
- anatomical
- anatomically correct
- anti-Darwinian
- anti-Darwinism
- biodiversity
- botany
- Darwinism
- entomological
- entomologist
- fight-or-flight
- food chain
- morphology
- poisonous
- recolonization
- recolonize
- regeneration
- regenerative
- restimulate
- zoology
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