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Eukaryota

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noun

The domain comprised of eukaryotes or organisms whose cells contain a true nucleus.


Supplement

Eukaryota (or Eukarya) is one in the three-domain system of biological classification introduced by Carl Woese in 1990. The other two are Archaea and Bacteria.


Related terms: eukaryote (noun).

Synonym: Eukarya.
Compare: Archaea, Bacteria.
See also: eukaryote.


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Re: are the horse and chicken related?

... if you use this thinking as a means to "prove" evolution. The problem is that the earliest life forms (cyanobacteria, the archaeans, and eukaryota) are genetically speaking completely different. They appear consecutively in the fossil record/geologic time scale and are dated consecutively. ...

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by AFJ
Mon Feb 23, 2009 3:35 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: are the horse and chicken related?
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The Fiber Disease

... pub med. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=gene&cmd=retrieve&dopt=default&list_uids=718 Organism: Homo sapiens Lineage: Eukaryota; Metazoa; Chordata; Craniata; Vertebrata; Euteleostomi; Mammalia; Eutheria; Euarchontoglires; Primates; Haplorrhini; Catarrhini; Hominidae; ...

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by southcity
Sun Jul 09, 2006 3:35 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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monera kingdom

... I've just bougt today, the classification of organisms are based on their nuclei membrane. So, there're only two kingdoms which are Procariota and Eukaryota. Procaryota divided into bacteria and archaea. Eukaryota divided into protista, fungus, plantae and animalia.

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by victor
Sat Jul 09, 2005 12:13 pm
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: monera kingdom
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Protoctists?

... classification, there are 6 kingdoms of living things: - Archaebacteria (Prokaryota) - Eubacteria (Prokaryota) - Protoctista a.k.a Protista (Eukaryota) - Mycota a.k.a Fungi (Eukaryota) - Plantae (Eukaryota) - Animalia (Eukaryota) Protoctista is a kingdom of unicellular organisms, which live ...

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by Dr.Stein
Thu Jul 07, 2005 2:10 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Protoctists?
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who is more clever??

That's funny Andrew... :lol: ..well actually eukaryota can become human if they do differentiation in a big scale and doing complex chemical reactions.. :lol: (human belongs to eukaryota right??)

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by victor
Mon Jun 27, 2005 12:03 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: who is more clever??
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