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Difference between Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cell
What specifically are the main differences between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? Here is a side by side comparison to simplify mastering the basics of cell structure.
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Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
There are only two basic types of cells, primitive prokaryotes and the more complex eukaryotes. Here are the main features that distinguish these cell types.
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Biology of Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells
This collection of articles provides basic information about prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, their structure, function, differences and similarities.
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Similarities of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
What specifically are the similarities between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells? Here is a side by side comparison to simplify mastery of the basics of cell structure.
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How to Know Bacterial, Plant, Animal Cell Types
From the smallest bacterium to the largest plants and animals they are foundational and basic - they are cells. Explore cell uniqueness, similarities and differences.
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Cell Organelles and Features, What To Know
Cells that are small and primitive, or large and more complex, are organized to promote their sustenance and survival. Even the simplest of cells are very complex.
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Fermentation
The production of energy from organic compounds by oxidation using chemical (usually organic) compounds from within a cell as "electron acceptors" is called fermentation.
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Principles of Ribosome Structure and Function
See the structure, nature and function of ribosomes - cell organelles essential for life. Ribosomes work with messenger RNA to manufacture all necessary cell proteins.
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What Is a Eukaryotic Cell?
Whether you know it or not, eukaryotic cells are the tiny units of life that make up your entire body. Read on and learn more about yourself!
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Get a life IV
Given the right conditions, life started almost immediately; yet the road to complex organisms and to intelligence was probably more arduous and fraught with devastating incidents of which the sky was not absent.
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Cell Structure
A look at the structural components of eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells and the differences between the two types of cell.
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Eukaryotic Cell Endomembrane System
The cell's endomembrane system consists of the rough and smooth ER, Golgi apparatus, vesicles and plasma membrane, all working together to transport cellular materials.
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Membrane Bound Organelles
Organelles allow for many of the different required functions of the eukaryotic cell to be performed in specialized subcellular structures.
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Comparison of Cells, Viruses, Viroids & Prions
Infectious disease can result of cellular organisms, such as bacteria (prokaryotes), from eukaryotes (cells like ours) or from nonliving infectious agents.
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Flies Live Longer on Low Protein Diets
A new study shows a strong correlation between longer life and low protein diets in Drosophila, or fruit flies. Low protein diets slow down mitochondrial degradation.
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Eukaryotic Animal Cell Structure
Animals and plants are eukaryotes, composed of cells that have a nucleus, and membrane-bound organelles. But animal cells have a few different features than plant cells.
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Basic Cell Biology for Understanding Genetics
Genetics is concerned with how traits are passed on through generations. This information, genetic material, is stored inside cells, working units that make up organisms.
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Cells & Viral Pathogenic Microbes
All living things are composed of one or more cells. Unlike cells, viruses, viroids and prions are acellular, nonliving parasites that require a living host to reproduce.
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Eukaryotic Cell Biology, Structure and Function
The eukaryotic cells of plants and animals possess several critical differences from prokaryotic cells, including a nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles.
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Bacterial Cell Wall Structure
The amount and location of peptidoglycan in the prokaryotic cell wall is what determines whether a bacterium is Gram-positive or Gram-negative.
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Eukaryotic Cell Structure Class Activity
This classroom activity can be used to familiarize students with basic cell structure and encourage them to think about how the membrane system of eukaryotes works.
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Learning about Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells
Many science students are looking for short-cuts to make learning cell biology effortless. There are none, but there are strategies to help compare the two cell types.
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Difference between Plant and Animal Cells
Both plant and animal cells are eukaryotic, with many similarities, but there are also key differences between the cells of plants and animals. Here is a summary.
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Asexual and Sexual Reproduction
Some living things reproduce by cloning; producing offspring that are genetically identical to the parent. Organisms that procreate sexually create genetic novelty.
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Fun Cell Biology Education
Studying cell biology doesn't have to suck. Here's a fun and fascinating summary of how the cells of your body work to keep you alive and healthy.
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Photosynthetic Plant Cell Structure
Plants are eukaryotes, composed of cells that have a nucleus, and membrane-bound organelles. But plants have a few different features than animal cells. Here's a summary.
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Sputnik - Now a Virus Satellite
Newly discovered cell-sized viruses have an infecting satellite virus, with implications for viruses as life forms, cell origins, the cause of disease and its treatment.
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What Is A Cell? Basic Overview Of An Animal Cell
All organisms are made up of cells. There are single-celled and multi-celled organisms. Here is a brief overview of what a cell consists of, and some of its functions.
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What Is the Electron Transport Chain (ETC)
The electron transport chain is the most complex and productive pathway of cellular respiration. Here is a straightforward, simplified explanation of how the ETC works.
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The Fish, Part I
The fish are our earliest vertebrate animals. Learn more about the many different types of fish.
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The Biochemical Structure of DNA
Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the key component of living cells, is presented here in an overview.
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MOA of Quinolone Antibiotics
Antibiotics are chemotherapeutic agents used to inhibit or kill bacteria (prokaryotic organisms). How do quinolones destroy bacteria without hurting our cells?
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Horizontal Gene Transfer and Symbiogenesis
Horizontal gene transfer, also called lateral gene transfer, is a mechanism for evolution that goes beyond typical Darwinian theory.
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Albertosaurs, "Lizard from Alberta"
Albertosaurus is sometimes overlooked because of its more famous cousin, Tyrannosaurus rex.
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Cellular Respiration Explained
Cellular respiration is the biochemical breakdown of a chemical substrate, such as glucose sugar, or fat, through oxidation.
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The Fungus Among Us!! Those critters with guts.
See the world of fungi by clicking above.
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What are Bacteria?: Those gutless microorganisms.
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The Hierarchy of Life
There is an ordered regularity to the pandemonium of life on Earth.
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Reptile Skulls
Reptile families are grouped by the shape of their skulls. How are turtles different from mammals?
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Antibiotic Activity at Bacterial Ribosome Sites
The mechanisms of inhibition of bacterial protein synthesis become clearer each year. The recent Nobel Prize in Chemistry rewarded the clearer understanding of ribosomes.
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Basic Cytoskeletal Proteins
The stability of cell shape and structure are maintained by cytoskeletal proteins that interact with and transport required functional molecules.
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Five Kingdoms of Life
Scientific classification sorts all life forms on Earth into five kingdoms: monera, protista, fungi, plantae, and animalia. Together they form the tree of life.
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Functions and Structure of Ribosomes
Ribosomes, which can be free floating in the cell or attached to endoplasmic reticulum, carry out the steps of protein synthesis in the cell.
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How Taxonomists Define Algae
The term 'algae' covers many different organisms from plant-like seaweeds to unicellular diatoms. This can make an algae definition confusing.
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Micro-RNAs, Diseases and Therapy
Besides mediating between the DNA and proteins, RNA has a function in regulating the levels of proteins in the cell. This regulation is critical for the cell's behavior.
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Mycelia Sterilia
A definite asexual or sexual reproductive cycle is usually a prerequisite for the success of a species. Mycelia sterilia have found a way to do without either.
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The Cell Nucleus
The cell nucleus may be the most important organelle in the cell. It contains the DNA which controls nearly all cell activity.
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The Importance of Extremophiles
Extremophiles survive harsh conditions that would otherwise be unlivable. Studying them offers clues to evolution, adaptation and the possibility of life on other worlds.
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What are Fungi? Fungi Classification and Functio
More then just mold, fungi are the decomposers of the ecosystem. Once grouped with plants, fungi are actually more closely related to animals.
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Why Do We Breathe? Aerobic Cellular Respiration
Glycolysis, synthesis of acetyl-CoA, Kreb's Cycle and electron transport are the complex series of reactions that turn the food we eat into energy.
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