How to Use eukaryote in a Sentence

eukaryote

noun
  • This protein complex is preserved across all eukaryotes — basically, all animals, plants, and fungi.
    William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
  • So until the new study, eukaryotes were the only group totally left out of the fun.
    Amber Dance, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Branching out The EBP’s stated goal is to sequence, within a decade, the genomes of all 1.5m known species of eukaryotes.
    The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
  • But things changed with the evolution of eukaryotes more than 2.5 billion years ago.
    Jon Kelvey, Smithsonian, 11 June 2019
  • There weren’t just two—there were five, and some were eukaryotes (with nucleuses), and some were prokaryotes (without).
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The fragments contained genes from a species of archaea that seemed to be closely related to eukaryotes.
    Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The search for the first eukaryote has researchers painstakingly coaxing rare microbes from seafloor sludge.
    Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Welcome to Asgard Complex cells, called eukaryotes, carry a mixture of three types of genes.
    John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
  • But archaea and eukaryotes turn out to be similar in other respects, and archaea are unique in yet others.
    David P. Barash, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Families are the taxonomic group above the genus level and the eukaryotes comprise roughly 9,300 of them.
    The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Broad’s team, led by Feng Zhang, published a paper that described its success in eukaryotes in January 2013.
    Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
  • Life was limited to the oceans and large creatures had yet to evolve, but fossils show that microscopic eukaryotes such as algae lived before and after the episode.
    Byadam Mann, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Those components, or organelles, characterize cells of the third branch, the eukaryotes.
    Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
  • But that wasn’t complete either, and scientists made a third domain in addition to eukaryotes and prokaryotes: the archaea.
    Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2019
  • This sort of complex sorting of cellular contents is a feature of all modern eukaryotes.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Mitochondria must have evolved in the common ancestor of eukaryotes, some 1.8 billion years ago.
    Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
  • Mitochondria may have been born early in the evolution of eukaryotes.
    Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2015
  • This organism isn't an animal, plant or fungus but a eukaryote.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 May 2018
  • This analysis revealed a new phylum of DNA viruses that are shaped like herpesviruses and infect eukaryotes but share a key enzyme with large and giant viruses.
    Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
  • In a fateful encounter, a cyanobacterium was engulfed by a eukaryote, a cell that had evolved the capacity for internal organs, and lived on within its membrane.
    Lucy Jakub, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
  • In contrast to eukaryotes, which all have a suite of organelles in common, different groups of prokaryotes showcase their own specialized compartments.
    Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But a deeper mystery surrounds the emergence of the nucleus; no one even knows whether that ancient archaeon was already a kind of proto-eukaryote with a nucleus, or whether the nucleus came later.
    Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
  • This year, scientists found a way to fill in an 800-million-year gap in the molecular fossil record between the appearance of the earliest eukaryote and that of the most recent ancestor of all eukaryotes alive today.
    Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Geochemists and paleontologists look to fossilized traces of these sterols as evidence for the presence of eukaryotes in ancient ecosystems.
    Bygretchen Vogel, science.org, 7 June 2023
  • Her team had not only isolated and cultivated the organism for the first time but shown that its flailing filaments were made of actin, the protein that forms a skeletal scaffold in almost all complex cells, or eukaryotes.
    Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Instead of feeding on molecular debris, eukaryotes now had enough fuel to chase after bacteria and engulf them.
    Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
  • But tracing the earliest eukaryotes back through Earth’s history has been difficult.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
  • This is the first eukaryote — organisms, like plants and animals, whose cells contain distinct nuclei — found without the machinery of mitochondria.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
  • This is the first eukaryote — organisms, like plants and animals, whose cells contain distinct nuclei — found without the machinery of mitochondria.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
  • Many of Earth’s extremophiles belong to the Archaea domain, a superkingdom on the tree of life that is separate from both bacteria as well as the eukaryotes, which encompass all plants, fungi and animals, including us.
    Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019

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