A cell is the fundamental unit of all life, composing all living things. All cells are surrounded by a plasma membrane that sets their boundaries and keeps the bad guys out—or the cell keeps the...

Who likes to move it, move it?While most of us larger, multicellular (or tons o' cells) eukaryotes can move and groove with the help of some legs and arms, our single cells and unicellular compadre...

Brace yourself. It's about to get eukaryotically crazy up in here. We're gearing up to run full speed ahead into the diversity of this domain. It's advised you take a minute to warm up those brain...

Earth is about 4.6 billion years old. It's eaten a lot of birthday cake over the years, but eukaryotes have only been invited to the party for about the last 2 billion years. How exactly did we get...

Mo' eukaryotes, mo' problems.Oh, well. Evolution and time have brought us some fantastic eukaryotic diversity across the kingdoms. It's also brought us some "organism rivalry." Thanks to other euka...

Scientists care a lot about curing human disease and understanding human development. For obvious reasons, using humans as experimental objects isn't exactly considered ethical or safe. You might w...

Eukaryotic Cell StructureProkaryotes are simpler organisms than eukaryotes. The prefix "pro" refers to "before," because prokaryotes came before eukaryotes, which evolved later. Movement in Smaller...

Eukaryotic Cell Structure1. True or False: Prokaryotes have nuclei. 2. The general term for DNA and associated proteins is (are):a. Chromosomesb. Chromatinc. Chromatone d. Histonee. Nucleus3. What...