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What does eukaryote mean?

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  1. Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.
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The invention further relates to eukaryote cells or prokaryote cells containing the recombinant DNA vector or the recombinant fowlpox virus.
This arrangement of eukaryote, bacteria, and archaea is called the three-domain system, replacing the two-empire system of simply eukaryote and prokaryote.
One was experimental: the discovery in 1977 of the fragmented structure of eukaryote genes, with their alternating coding and non-coding regions.
Classified as a eukaryote, yeast shares many similarities with man at the cellular and subcellular levels.
Second, they provide geneticists with that most valuable of scientific commodities, a trend. Drosophila is the third so-called eukaryote to have its genes more-or-less completely unravelled.
Until we rooted the eukaryote tree correctly it was harder to decide whether such features absent in some groups were ancestrally absent or secondarily lost.

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