{"id":8844,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/prokaryote_cell_-or_organism\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:07","slug":"prokaryote_cell_-or_organism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/prokaryote_cell_-or_organism\/","title":{"rendered":"Prokaryote cell (or organism)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An organism who cells lack organelles and whose DNA is not arranged in chromosomes, but forms a coiled structure called a nucleoid. &nbsp;Prokaryotic organisms are bacteria and blue-green algae. &nbsp;The traditional distinction between prokaryotes and eukaryotes has had to be revised with the discovery of tublin-like, actin-like and histone-like molecules in arch aeons (found, for example, in deep-sea hydrothermal vents) as these proteins were previously considered only to exist in eukaryotes. &nbsp;Tublin refers to a small hollow, cylindrical structure. &nbsp;However, it is believed that eukaryotes evolved from symbiotic associations between prokaryotes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"actin\">Actin<\/a>, <a href=\"cell\">Cell<\/a>, <a href=\"cell_locomotion\">Cell locomotion<\/a>, <a href=\"cytoplasm\">Cytoplasm<\/a>, DNA, <a href=\"eukaryote_cell_-or_organism-\">Eukaryote cell (or organism)<\/a>, <a href=\"flagella\">Flagella<\/a>, <a href=\"genome\">Genome<\/a>, <a href=\"histone\">Histone<\/a>, <a href=\"jacob-monod_operon_model\">Jacob-Monod operon model<\/a>, <a href=\"nucleoid\">Nucleoid<\/a>, <a href=\"organelles\">Organelles<\/a>, <a href=\"protoplasm\">Protoplasm<\/a>, <a href=\"phototaxis\">Phototaxis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An organism who cells lack organelles and whose DNA is not arranged in chromosomes, but forms a coiled structure called a nucleoid. &nbsp;Prokaryotic organisms are bacteria and blue-green algae. &nbsp;The traditional distinction between prokaryotes and eukaryotes has had to be revised with the discovery of tublin-like, actin-like and histone-like molecules in arch aeons (found, for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/prokaryote_cell_-or_organism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Prokaryote cell (or organism)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}