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Eukaryotic

Definition

adjective

Of, or pertaining to, or characteristic of a eukaryote, which is basically an organism possessing a membrane-bound nucleus.


Supplement

Organisms may be grouped in two major groups: prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Eukaryotes include the animals, plants, fungi, and protists.


Word origin: eukaryote + -ic.

Variant: eucaryotic (British)

Compare: prokaryotic


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Re: How did endosymbionts coordinate replication?

Just a question about mtDNA: According to the endosymbiontic theory mitochondria were ancient bacteria that survived in an ancient eukaryotic cell and continued to live as part of it as an organelle. So, I suppose, in any eukaryotic cell the mtDNA should be relatively conserved. However, ...

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by kk
Tue Feb 26, 2013 8:29 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: How did endosymbionts coordinate replication?
Replies: 5
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Cycloheximide-increase in protein levels???

Hi everyone, In order to find out the half life of my protein of interest, I treated my cells with cycloheximide(CHX), which is an eukaryotic translation inhibitor, through different time intervals. Then, I looked at the protein amounts by Western Blot. However, I saw that as I left them ...

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by sciencemakerinthelab
Sun Jan 27, 2013 2:56 pm
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Cycloheximide-increase in protein levels???
Replies: 1
Views: 275

How did endosymbionts coordinate replication?

If you could link me to a scholarly article that describes how after endosymbiosis, the bacterial cell and it's eukaryotic host coordinated replication (or if you can explain it to me yourself) I would be really grateful. Originally, they replicated separately, so I'm not sure ...

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by lizzymichigan
Tue Dec 18, 2012 12:06 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: How did endosymbionts coordinate replication?
Replies: 5
Views: 809

Re:

Hardly will someone answer in half hour. Where do you want to express it? In what system? If you wanted to use eukaryotic system (yeast or best plants), you could clone genomic version including the introns and let the cell to solve your problem. Hello, thank you for your response ...

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by polkadotshorts
Sat Dec 08, 2012 3:52 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: How to clone a gene with lots of splicing intermediates?
Replies: 6
Views: 881

protiens

... recognition c)Acylation ------ ---- 3)Degradation d)Ubiquitinatio -------- 4)Activation/inactivation 2) One of the advantages of expressing eukaryotic proteins in bacteria is that they are faithfully post-translationaly modified. True or False. 3)The structure and mechanism of action of ...

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by 2468
Tue Dec 04, 2012 1:11 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: protiens
Replies: 1
Views: 463
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