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Meaning of "prokaryote" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PROKARYOTE

From pro-² + karyo- + -ote as in zygote.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF PROKARYOTE

prəʊˈkærɪɒt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PROKARYOTE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prokaryote 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 PROKARYOTE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Prokaryote

The prokaryotes are a group of organisms whose cells lack a membrane-bound nucleus. Those organisms whose cells have a well defined membrane bound nucleus and organelles are called eukaryotes. Most prokaryotes are unicellular organisms, although a few such as myxobacteria have multicellular stages in their life cycles or create large colonies like cyanobacteria. The word prokaryote comes from the Greek πρό- "before" and καρυόν "nut or kernel". Prokaryotes do not have a membrane bound nucleus, mitochondria, or any other membrane-bound organelles. Consequently, all their intracellular water-soluble components are located together in the same volume enclosed by the cell membrane, rather than in separate cellular compartments. The division between prokaryotes and eukaryotes reflects two distinct levels of cellular organization rather than biological classification of species. Prokaryotes include two major classification domains of life: the Bacteria and the Archaea. Archaea were recognized as a domain in 1990.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PROKARYOTE

procaryote · timariot

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PROKARYOTE

projective · projective geometry · projective test · projectively · projectivity · projectment · projector · projecture · projet · prokaryon · prokaryotic · proke · proker · Prokofiev · Prokopyevsk · prolabor · prolactin · prolamine · prolan · prolapse

WORDS THAT END LIKE PROKARYOTE

akaryote · chayote · cote · coyote · denote · devote · endnote · eucaryote · eukaryote · Grote · keynote · note · peyote · promote · quote · remote · rote · tote · vote · wrote

Synonyms and antonyms of prokaryote in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prokaryote» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PROKARYOTE

Find out the translation of prokaryote to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of prokaryote from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prokaryote» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

原核生物
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

procariota
570 millions of speakers
en

English

prokaryote
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

prokaryote
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

بدائي النواة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

прокариот
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

prokaryote
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

প্রোক্যারিওট
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

procaryotes
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Prokaryote
190 millions of speakers
de

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Prokaryoten
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

原核生物
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

원핵 생물
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Prokaryote
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

prokaryote
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

புரோகாரியோட்டு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

प्रोकर्योत
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

prokaryot
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

procarioti
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

prokariont
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

прокаріот
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

prokaryote
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

προκαρυώτης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

prokariote
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

prokaryot
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

prokaryote
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prokaryote

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PROKARYOTE»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROKARYOTE»

Discover the use of prokaryote in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prokaryote and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cell and Molecular Biology: Concepts and Experiments
FIGURE 1 A model depicting possible steps in the evolution of eukaryotic cells, including the origin of mitochondria and chloroplasts by endosymbiosis. In step 1, a large anaerobic, heterotrophic prokaryote takes in a small aerobic prokaryote.
Gerald Karp, 2009
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The Prokaryotes: Vol. 1: Symbiotic Associations, ...
Prokaryote Character i zat ion and Ident ificat ion Prokaryote Characterization and Identification HANS G. TRÜPER AND KARL-HEINZ SCHLEIFER IDENTIFICATION AREA OF TAXONOMY MORPHOLOGY ECOLOGY PHYSIOLOGY ...
Martin Dworkin, Stanley Falkow, 2006
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The Proterozoic Biosphere: A Multidisciplinary Study
(Cao 1984) Septate filamentous prokaryote (S). (colonial bodies). (Cao 1984) Colonial coccoid ?chroococcacean cyanobacteria ("S"). (tubular sheaths). (Cao 1984) Tubular sheath of filamentous cyanobacterium ("S"). (unicells). (Cao 1984)  ...
J. William Schopf, Cornelis Klein, 1992
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Archaea: Evolution, Physiology, and Molecular Biology
It was so important to get the “prokaryote” matter out in the open. Something was strange about this “prokaryote”! Whatever the reason, “prokaryote” had special significance for microbiologists. Yet the reason couldn't be historical usage of the  ...
Roger A. Garrett, Hans-Peter Klenk, 2008
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Evolutionary Biology – Concepts, Biodiversity, ...
Nicolas Cerveau, Se ́bastien Leclercq, Didier Bouchon, and Richard Cordaux Abstract Transposable elements (TEs) are one of the major forces that drive prokaryote genome evolution. Analyses of TE evolutionary dynamics revealed ...
Pierre Pontarotti, 2011
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Taxonomy of Prokaryotes
As a consequence, the discovery of new prokaryote diversity is speeding up as the number of prokaryote species is orders of magnitudes larger than previously envisaged. Furthermore, the present species concept does not reflect the ...
‎2011
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Alcamo's Fundamentals of Microbiology: Body Systems
Yet if you look in any introductory biology textbook, prokaryote is defined as a group of organisms that lack a cell nucleus. According to Pace, “the prokaryote/ eukaryote model for biological diversity and evolution is invalid.” How can all ...
Glendale Community College Jeffrey C Pommerville, Jeffrey Pommerville, 2012
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The New Foundations of Evolution : On the Tree of Life: On ...
Whether some or all of the endosymbionts joined the prokaryote cell before or after it evolved a nucleus probably cannot now be stated. Yet whether the one or the other obtains, it does not change the “fact” (says this theory. . .) that the ...
Canada Jan Sapp York University, 2009
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Fundamentals of Microbiology
Traditionally, a prokaryote was an organism without a cell nucleus; that is, without a membrane surrounding the DNA or chromosome. But is that a fair way to describe all bacterial and archaeal organisms? In this chapter, you have learned that ...
Jeffrey C. Pommerville, 2013
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Archabacteria
reasons unrelated to the matter of phylogenetic coherence of the group. Several generations of biologists have now been raised to believe that prokaryote— eukaryote is both a cytological and a phylogenetic dichotomy. The term prokaryote ...
Carl R. Woese, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROKARYOTE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prokaryote is used in the context of the following news items.
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Classifying microbial species in the genomics era
"The implications of using this method in transforming microbiology cannot be overstated," said Kyrpides, head of the Prokaryote Super ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
2
Where are all the aliens?
Another possibility: The Great Filter could be the jump from the simple prokaryote cell to the complex eukaryote cell. After prokaryotes came into ... «Scroll.in, Jul 15»
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A novel intracellular mutualistic bacterium in the invasive ant …
Evolution of prokaryote–animal symbiosis from a genomics perspective. Microbiol Monogr 19: 207–233. Gil R, Sabater-Munoz B, Latorre A, ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Protein functional features are reflected in the patterns of mRNA …
... interesting specially taking into account that they were obtained in organisms as different as a prokaryote (E. coli) and an eukaryote (Yeast). «BMC Blogs Network, Jul 15»
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Phylogenetic congruence and ecological coherence in terrestrial …
Article | PubMed | ISI | CAS |; Doolittle WF, Zhaxybayeva O. (2013) What is a prokaryote? the prokaryotes – prokaryotic biology and symbiotic ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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Weird Bed Bug Gets Weirder: Genetics Edition
Although the history of mitochondria isn't fully known, it may have originated as a simple cell called a prokaryote that worked its way into ... «Popular Science, Jul 15»
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Great divides
... of fundamental 'choices' made by evolution - vertebrate vs invertebrate, oviparous vs viviparous, eukaryote vs prokaryote for example. «PMLiVE, Jun 15»
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Global analyses of TetR family transcriptional regulators in …
Acknowledgments; References. BMC Genomics · Prokaryote microbial genomics · Volume 16. Viewing options. Abstract; Full text; PDF (1.6MB) ... «BMC Blogs Network, Jun 15»
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Automating microbial genome sequence decontamination
Nikos Kyrpides, head of the Prokaryote Super Program at the DOE JGI, said that the emergence of software solutions—such as ProDeGe—to ... «Phys.Org, Jun 15»
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Human dCTP pyrophosphatase 1 promotes breast cancer cell …
dUTPase exists extensively from prokaryote to eukaryocyte organisms. In Escherichia coli (E. coli), mutations in the dut gene are either lethal or ... «Nature.com, Jun 15»
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