PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITIES3421 WORDS The DNA floats within the nucleus of this cell. The division of the cell happens via mitosis. The nucleus is known as a nucleoid
PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITIES3421 WORDS The DNA floats within the nucleus of this cell. The division of the cell happens via mitosis. The nucleus is known as a nucleoid
PROKARYOTIC AND EUKARYOTIC CELLS DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITIES
3421 WORDS
The DNA floats within the nucleus of this cell. The division of the cell happens via mitosis. The nucleus is known as a nucleoid which isn’t a true nucleus like eukaryotic cell.
(John Wiley and Sons. (2014). How Cells Work: Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes. Available: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-cells-work-prokaryotes-and-eukaryotes.navId-403029.html. Last accessed 11/11/2014.)
(Rene Fester Kratz & Donna Rae Siegfried (2010). Biology for dummies. 2nd ed. Canada: Wiley Publishing Inc. p49-52,p57-61.)
The DNA is more complex, the nucleolus situated in the middle of the cell, holds the DNA together and in a plant cell a nuclear envelope does this job.
The division of the cell happens via meiosis.
Ribosomes
Responsible for making proteins in the cytoplasm, these are smaller than in a eukaryotic cell.
They are present and bigger than in a prokaryotic cell.
Cytoplasm
This is a liquid material that contains the DNA and other parts of the cell that allow it to function.
(John Wiley and Sons. (2014). How Cells Work: Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes. Available: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-cells-work-prokaryotes-and-eukaryotes.navId-403029.html. Last accessed 11/11/2014)
The DNA is contained within the nucleus and the other organelles float in the cytoplasm outside the nucleus.
Differences
Chloroplasts
Only found in plant or algae cells which are eukaryotic.
(s-cool youth marketing ltd. (2014). Introduction to cells. Available: http://www.s-cool.co.uk/a-level/biology/cells-and-organelles/revise-it/introduction-to-cells. Last accessed 10/11/2014.)
Only found in plant or algae cells, responsible for extracting food from the sun and carbon dioxide.