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Question
What are the characteristics of prokaryotic cells?
Answer in Brief
Solution
The characteristics of prokaryotic cells are as follows:
- In essence, a prokaryotic cell has only one envelope.
- Organelles embedded in membranes are absent in prokaryotes.
- Bacteria possess 70S ribosomes. In the cytoplasm, bare DNA is coiled.
- It is not shielded by the nuclear membrane and is referred to as a nucleoid.
- There are no nuclear constituents such as the nucleoplasm, nucleolus, or nuclear envelope.
- Mycoplasma lack cell walls, whereas bacteria and cyanobacteria do.
- Multiplies by asexual reproduction.
- The cytoplasm is where translation and transcription happen.
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