How to Use eukaryotic in a Sentence

eukaryotic

adjective
  • Five percent may seem like a small sliver of the eukaryotic pie.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • On the universal tree of life, all eukaryotic life falls on exactly one branch.
    — Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
  • This resulted in a much smaller group of genes than are present in a typical eukaryotic genome.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • Here’s a quick refresher course of some of the major eukaryotic organelles to keep your science skills sharp.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026
  • These tubes, known as microtubules, form and bloom and decay in a dance that controls many aspects of eukaryotic life.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Now, researchers have traced the origin of eukaryotic steroids almost a billion years further back in time.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 June 2023
  • The Tools for the Job Here is what happens when a eukaryotic cell dooms itself to die.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • So what are the principles on which these proto-citizens, in their eukaryotic state, will agree?
    — George G. Szpiro, Big Think, 9 Apr. 2026
  • Plus, there was the challenge of figuring out what the ancestral eukaryotic genome looked like.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • Their first step was to limit the number of species included in the eukaryotic family tree.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • For that reason, all eukaryotic cells are equipped with special genetic shears called spliceosomes.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
  • The discovery fills in a large gap in the history of complex, eukaryotic life on Earth.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
  • This process contributed to the emergence of many diverse and complex eukaryotic life-forms on Earth.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • Unlike bacteria and archaea, which are much older forms of life called prokaryotes, a eukaryotic cell has a double membrane of lipids around it.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • For example, eukaryotic cells attach chemical tags and proteins called histones to hide away parts of the genome.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
  • All complex forms of life, including plants and animals, consist of complex eukaryotic cells.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2022
  • These sessile foraminifera could contribute between two and 11 percent of total eukaryotic biomass carbon in the hadal zone.
    — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026
  • Some of the eukaryotic cells had a 'halo' coating of organic compounds around them, Schreder-Gomes said.
    — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
  • Our earth is home to approximately 9 million eukaryotic species.
    — Sheetal R. Modi, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2014
  • In this way, all eukaryotic life, including human life, rides on the spindle’s success with each cell division across an organism’s lifetime.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2026
  • Since humans are eukaryotes, humanity would not exist if the origin of eukaryotic cells had never happened.
    — Daniel Brady Mills, The Conversation, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The search for answers about the origin of eukaryotic apoptosis seems to be drawing researchers deeper into the bacterial world.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
  • All eukaryotic cells, including our own, trace their evolutionary origins to a free-living ancestor.
    — Claire L. Evans, Quanta Magazine, 30 July 2025
  • Wollweber and his colleagues wanted to see if the Lokiarchaea’s tubulin-like proteins behaved like the eukaryotic versions.
    — Veronique Greenwood, Quanta Magazine, 8 Sep. 2025
  • A lot of eukaryotic genes are also close relatives of one another, brought about by multiple duplications of an ancestral gene.
    — ArsTechnica, 11 June 2026
  • The similar shape of mirusviruses and herpesviruses suggests that these eukaryotic viruses share a common ancestor.
    — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • More than 30 distinct classes of myosin proteins have been identified, and their distribution varies widely across eukaryotic life.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 3 Apr. 2026
  • An aid to survival The influence of endosymbiosis extends beyond its role in shaping the evolution of the eukaryotic cell.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 18 June 2026
  • For decades scientists thought epigenetic regulation was unique to eukaryotic cells and lacking in simpler ones, such as bacteria.
    — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The algae are either eukaryotic algae, such as green algae, or cyanobacteria, which are bacterial algae, or a combination of the two.
    — Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 19 June 2026

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