Question:
State the difference between eukaryotes and prokaryotes
Solution:
- Eukaryotic cells contains membrane bounded organelles, such as the nucleus, while prokaryotic cells do not.
- Prokaryotes are also known as the primitive life forms as they arrived earlier than the eukaryotes during the course of evolution.
- Eukaryotes are multicellular and prokaryotes are unicellular.
- Ribosomes are smaller in prokaryotes and larger in eukaryotes.
- Prokaryotes lacks 'true nucleus', whereas eukaryotes possess nucleus as well as nuclear membrane.
