Sentences with 'prokaryotes'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prokaryotes and other words derived from it.
• « Cells were classified, until the 1970s, into prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the latter having their genetic material protected by a membrane. »
• « These very primitive life forms, today called prokaryotes, were not creative at all: they just ate whatever was "out there". However, they thrived so much that they emptied the seas of food and died en masse of starvation (the first ecological catastrophe in history). »
• « Thus, this design of things packed inside other things becomes the hallmark of prokaryotes, or modern cells. »
• « And today, 4.5 billion years after the formation of the Earth and 3 billion years after the appearance of the first prokaryotes, the principle of packaging still holds true. Today it can be found in an amoeba, in the cells of a lettuce, or among us humans. »