BIO 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mitochondrion, Meiosis, Chloroplast

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Prokaryotes are 2/3 of the tree of life. There are quotation marks around the word because they are a unnatural group. C(cid:455)a(cid:374)o(cid:271)a(cid:272)teria produ(cid:272)ed o(cid:454)(cid:455)ge(cid:374) that (cid:272)ha(cid:374)ged our (cid:862)prokar(cid:455)otes(cid:863) are the oldest a(cid:374)d si(cid:373)plest life for(cid:373) atmosphere from a reducing environment to an oxidizing one. Unicellularity: [unicellular] prokaryotes are unicellular although some of them do form colonies or string together to form filaments. Internal structure: [no membrane bounded organelles] prokaryotes have no cytoskeleton and membrane bounded organelles and enzymes. Cell proteins are free floating in the cell membrane. Chromosomes: [single circular dna] prokaryotes have a single circular double stranded dna chromosome in a nucleoid region of the cell (also commonly referred to as a bacterial chromosome but is technically a gonophore). Lacks chromatids and nucleus. ( no nucleus: un nucleated) Cell division: [binary fission] prokaryotes use an asexual method of cell production called binary. Binary fission can happen extremely fast and extremely slow.

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