All complex life forms on Earth, including plants and animals, are made up of eukaryotic cells; they are more sophisticated than bacterial or archaeal cells, which are prokaryotic. Eukaryotes have ...

Fox (Prokaryote Season) unspools an imaginative and insightful tale of gender transition. Lucille undertakes the fraught journey across the sea from Girl Island to Boy Island, hoping at last to ...

However, it was thought that it was impossible for prokaryote cells to engulf one another. "The idea of a 'fusion' of two different prokaryotes into one eukaryote seems incomprehensible to me from ...

Unlike most infectious agents—such as viruses or bacteria—that contain genetic material in the form of DNA or RNA, a prion is simply an aggregate of misfolded proteins. Although they are not living ...