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Procaryotic

Definition

adjective

Of, or pertaining to, or characteristic of a procaryote, which is basically an organism lacking a true nucleus.


Supplement

Organisms may be grouped in two major groups: prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Prokaryotes include the eubacteria and archaea.


Word origin: procaryote + -ic.

Variant: prokaryotic

Compare: eucaryotic


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Endosymbiosis and assimilation in genetic code

... but i'm not satisfied already at the time. oh well.. in this case of mitochondrion and chloroplast.. it happen because the ancient cell-procaryotic cell-, long time ago, egnulfed the bacterial cell. then they make relationship... and the time go pretty long and they said to be endosymbiotic. ...

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by baikuza
Fri Sep 15, 2006 7:13 am
 
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Endosymbiosis and assimilation in genetic code
Replies: 2
Views: 594

The Fiber Disease

... of a simple signal transduction cascade The following modules are involved in signal transduction: a receptor of the stimulus (Description of a procaryotic signal reception module) Receptors need a receiver domain (e.g. a ligand-binding domain for chemotaxis, or a light-absorbing chromophore ...

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by Skytroll
Fri Aug 18, 2006 3:07 am
 
Forum: Human Biology
Topic: The Fiber Disease
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AMP selection of HEK293

... everybody. I meant Neo, I don't know why did I write Amp. Maybe because I was picking colonies from the transformed bacterial plate today, and the procaryotic resistancy gene in the construct is Amp. Thanks again for the suggestions.

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by szkornelia
Thu Jul 20, 2006 6:27 am
 
Forum: Cell Biology
Topic: AMP selection of HEK293
Replies: 6
Views: 535

Help Me- RNA

... don't know if it is proper but...) http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objid=AP1302 Or: (picture but not licenced. And the cell is not procaryotic) http://www.rkm.com.au/CELL/protein-synthesis.html And have a look at the search: http://images.google.com.tr/images?q=%22protein+synthesis%22&hl=tr&btnG=Resimlerde+Ara

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by Poison
Mon Jan 16, 2006 4:34 pm
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Help Me- RNA
Replies: 8
Views: 880

Differences and differences

Hello friends I would be very happy to summarize all the differences between procaryotic and eucaryotic transcription and translation(and related things). For example like procaryotic mRNA is polycistronic, eucaryotic is monocistronic or eucaryotic mRNA must be ...

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by pedro21101
Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:45 am
 
Forum: Molecular Biology
Topic: Differences and differences
Replies: 4
Views: 1144
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