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PRONUNCIATION OF PROKARYON

prokaryon  [prəʊˈkærɪɒn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROKARYON

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prokaryon is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PROKARYON MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prokaryon in the English dictionary

The definition of prokaryon in the dictionary is the nucleus of a prokaryote.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROKARYON


alectryon
əˈlɛktrɪɒn
evangeliarion
ˌɛvənˌdʒɛlɪˈɛərɪɒn
evangelistarion
ɪˌvændʒəlɪˈstɛərɪɒn
heterokaryon
ˌhɛtərəʊˈkærɪɒn
kaon
ˈkeɪɒn
karyon
ˈkærɪɒn
Lycaon
laɪˈkeɪɒn
Malathion
ˌmæləˈθaɪɒn
omophorion
ˌəʊməˈfɔːrɪɒn
pantaleon
pænˈtælɪɒn
parathion
ˌpærəˈθaɪɒn
pion
ˈpaɪɒn
psion
ˈsaɪɒn
rayon
ˈreɪɒn
spray-on
ˈspreɪɒn
sticharion
stɪˈkɛərɪɒn
toyon
ˈtɔɪɒn
tricerion
traɪˈsɪərɪɒn
troparion
trɒˈpeərɪɒn
try-on
ˈtraɪɒn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROKARYON

projectionist
projective
projective geometry
projective test
projectively
projectivity
projectment
projector
projecture
projet
prokaryote
prokaryotic
proke
proker
Prokofiev
Prokopyevsk
prolabor
prolactin
prolamine
prolan

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROKARYON

Amphitryon
antibaryon
Apollyon
baryon
Binyon
canyon
crayon
Geryon
Grand Canyon
halcyon
Lyon
Mayon
Noyon
pencil crayon
perikaryon
Runyon
sayon
synkaryon
tachyon
yon

Synonyms and antonyms of prokaryon in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prokaryon» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROKARYON

Find out the translation of prokaryon to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
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Translator English - Chinese

原核
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prokaryon
570 millions of speakers

English

prokaryon
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prokaryon
380 millions of speakers
ar

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prokaryon
280 millions of speakers

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prokaryon
278 millions of speakers

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prokaryon
270 millions of speakers

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prokaryon
260 millions of speakers

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prokaryon
220 millions of speakers

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Prokaryon
190 millions of speakers

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prokaryon
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

原核
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prokaryon
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prokaryon
85 millions of speakers
vi

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prokaryon
80 millions of speakers

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prokaryon
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रॉकायरोन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prokaryon
70 millions of speakers

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prokaryon
65 millions of speakers

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prokaryon
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

prokaryon
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prokaryon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

prokaryon
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prokaryon
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prokaryon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prokaryon
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prokaryon

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROKARYON»

The term «prokaryon» is used very little and occupies the 191.535 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PROKARYON» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about prokaryon

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROKARYON»

Discover the use of prokaryon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prokaryon and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Children Star - an Elysium Cycle Novel
To Prokaryon.” Prokaryon was a virginal frontier world, at a star two space folds away. With his fellow Callers, Rod collected dying orphans from L'li to join a small colony on Prokaryon. The child he had just collected was pale with fear; Rod ...
Joan Slonczewski, 2009
2
Brain Plague - An Elysium Cycle Novel
They are microbial cells. The original strain arose on Prokaryon.”The newest world of the Fold, Prokaryon was full of arsenic and ring-shaped aliens. Alien microbes helped humans live there, digesting the toxins. But something else came from ...
Joan Slonczewski, 2010
3
Modern Concepts of Microbiology
Lavoie (1995) called this entity "Prokaryon". The importance of the Prokaryon in the environment is borne out from the following points: 1. Microorganisms are present everywhere. They can adapt to virtually any physicochemical environment.
H D Kumar, 2001
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The Children Star
Joan Slonczewski, author of Daughter of Elysium, and A Door into Ocean, is one of the field's leading writers of biological SF. Her new novel, The Children Star, is an ambitious adventure set on the planet Prokaryon -- a world that is only ...
Joan Slonczewski, 1999
5
Textbook of cytology
Division Procell division, like eucell division, can be divided into prokaryon division and protoplast division. The prokaryon is irregular in shape and eventually seems to appear as two new prokaryons. It must be somewhat more organized than ...
Walter Varian Brown, Eldridge Melvin Bertke, 1974
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Mosby's Pocket Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing & Health ...
Prokaryocytic organisms include bacteria, viruses, mycoplasmas, actinomycetes, and blue-green algae. prokaryon /pr6ker'é-on/ [Gk, protos + karyon, nut], a region within a bacterial cell that contains most of the bacterial DNA. It is not ...
Mosby, 2013
7
Cell and Molecular Biology
equivalent of a prokaryotic organism is known as prokaryon or more commonly as nucleoid rather than a nucleus. The 'prokaryon' or 'nucleoid' does not have a true chromosome; it is not enclosed in a nuclear envelope and does not divide by  ...
Gupta, 2009
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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health ...
Prokaryocytic organisms (Procaryotae) include bacteria, viruses, rickettsiae, chlamydiae, mycoplasmas, actinomycetes and blue-green algae. Also spelt procaryocyte. Compare eukaryocyte. prokaryon /pr6kar'é-on/ [Gk, pr6tos + karyon , nut], ...
Peter Harris, Sue Nagy, Nicholas Vardaxis, 2009
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The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology
Thus, the term prokaryon is used to indicate the existence of a nucleuslike structure (like the nucleoid body), more primitive than a true nucleus. This prokaryon is not surrounded by a nuclear envelope like a true nucleus. This term true nucleus ...
Masaharu Takemura, Sakura, Becom Co., Ltd., 2009
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Genetics
The nuclear equivalent of a prokaryotic organism is known as prokaryon or more commonly as nucleoid rather than a nucleus. The 'prokaryon' or 'nucleoid' does not have a true chromosome, is not enclosed in a nuclear envelope and does ...
Prof. P.K. Gupta, 1988

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