Every living organism falls into one of two groups: eukaryotes or prokaryotes, with cellular structure determining which group an organism belongs to. Prokaryotes are unicellular and lack a nucleus ...

According to scientists, the world is split into two kinds of organisms — prokaryotic vs. eukaryotic — which have two different types of cells. An organism can be made up of either one type or the ...

Our cells carry out hundreds of thousands of important functions every day, all of which are carefully orchestrated at a ...

Scientists from MIT studied how organisms live in modern Antarctic meltwater ponds to predict how similar organisms would ...

Protists (eukaryotes, excluding animals, land plants, and fungi) comprise the bulk of the eukaryotic phylogenetic tree, ...

Recent discoveries are revealing how the first eukaryote got its start. Three billion years ago, life on Earth was simple. Single-celled organisms ruled, and there wasn’t much to them. They were what ...

Daniel Mills, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München During this time, some of the defining characteristics of modern eukaryotic cells—the nucleus, mitochondria, cytoskeleton, cell membrane, and ...

“There’s lots of strong evidence for horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes, so there’s really no reason to say that it couldn’t have happened during that period of the prokaryote ...

Every living organism falls into one of two groups: eukaryotes or prokaryotes, with cellular structure determining which group an organism belongs to. Prokaryotes are unicellular and lack a nucleus ...