You know when you hear somebody start a sentence with, "There are two kinds of people..." and you think to yourself "Oh boy, ...

All cells have an outer plasma membrane that regulates not only what enters the cell, but also how much of any given substance comes in. Unlike prokaryotes, eukaryotic cells also possess internal ...

Cell membrane, surrounded by cell wall ... plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. Prokaryotic cell DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm; additional DNA is ...

Each of these organelles performs a specific function critical to the ... than their prokaryotic counterparts. That's because these organelles greatly expand the amount of membrane used for ...

Researchers have identified ancient proteins that may help explain how the first complex cells evolved from simpler ones over 15 billion years ago I ...

Eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells produce minute (40-1000 nm) membrane vesicles that are released into the ... to change upon environmental cues and the activation state of the cell. EVs may thus ...