How to Use prokaryote in a Sentence
prokaryote
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Moreover, the membranes of these organelles resemble those of prokaryotes.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 June 2026
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Unlike bacteria and archaea, which are much older forms of life called prokaryotes, a eukaryotic cell has a double membrane of lipids around it.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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But 3 billion years ago, the nitrogen floodgates opened when nitrogenase evolved in early prokaryotes.
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Quanta Magazine,
29 May 2026
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Some prokaryotes have unrelated cytoskeletal proteins — maybe the tubulins don’t get involved.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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How the eukaryotic cell evolved has been hard to trace; there are no living intermediate states between prokaryote and eukaryote that could reveal its evolutionary trajectory.
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Veronique Greenwood,
Quanta Magazine,
8 Sep. 2025
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Primary endosymbiosis gave rise to mitochondria and chloroplasts and involved primitive unicellular prokaryotes (or proto-eukaryotes) and archaea.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 June 2026
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Several multicellular organisms, particularly invertebrates, have obligate symbiotic prokaryotes living inside their cells and tissues in a mutually beneficial relationship.
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Encyclopedia Britannica,
18 June 2026
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