How to Use eukaryotic in a Sentence

eukaryotic

adjective

• Five percent may seem like a small sliver of the eukaryotic pie.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• But an important step on it was the first eukaryotic cell.
  — The Economist, 17 Mar. 2021
• The discovery fills in a large gap in the history of complex, eukaryotic life on Earth.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
• Now, researchers have traced the origin of eukaryotic steroids almost a billion years further back in time.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 June 2023
• Some of the eukaryotic cells had a 'halo' coating of organic compounds around them, Schreder-Gomes said.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
• The central question in the dispute is which group got the Crispr-Cas9 tool to successfully edit genes in eukaryotic cells, those that have nuclei and are in plants and animals.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 2 Mar. 2022
• For that reason, all eukaryotic cells are equipped with special genetic shears called spliceosomes.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• All complex forms of life, including plants and animals, consist of complex eukaryotic cells.
  — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2022
• Revisiting culturing as a means to find new microbes, including eukaryotic predators, may yield a rounder, fuller picture of the early evolution of complex cells.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 14 Dec. 2022
• The similar shape of mirusviruses and herpesviruses suggests that these eukaryotic viruses share a common ancestor.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
• This unexplained 800-million-year gap in early eukaryotic history, a crucial period when the last common ancestor of all of today’s complex life first arose, has shrouded the story of early life in mystery.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• While many eukaryotic genes are indeed closely related to those of archaea, as predicted by Woese’s tree, others have more similar counterparts in bacteria.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 13 Sep. 2010
• For decades scientists thought epigenetic regulation was unique to eukaryotic cells and lacking in simpler ones, such as bacteria.
  — Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 30 Mar. 2022
• Our earth is home to approximately 9 million eukaryotic species.
  — Sheetal R. Modi, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2014
• Microtubules are a key element of eukaryotic cells that are critical for mitosis, cell motility, transport within cells, and maintaining cell shape.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2022
• In their studies of other immune defenses in bacteria and archaea, researchers have uncovered striking parallels to those in the more complex eukaryotic cells of humans and other organisms.
  — Annie Melchor, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2022
• However, Kontoyiannis noted that fungal diseases are harder to treat than bacterial infections because fungi, like humans, are made of eukaryotic cells and share the same basic cell structures.
  — Kate Golembiewski, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
• To many evolutionary biologists, their discovery and subsequent studies justify revising the textbook pictures of the tree of life to situate us — and every other creature built from eukaryotic cells — as mere offshoots of the Asgard group.
  — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
• This essential function is conserved in all eukaryotic cells, Professor Geiger said, suggesting that the candidate proto-mitochondria also possessed genes to produce both lipids.
  — Grrlscientist, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• These sequences are ultimately defined in a larger context by the Kozak sequence, which is a nucleic acid motif that facilitates ribosomal initiation in eukaryotic cells.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
• Mitochondria, which originated early in eukaryotic evolution as symbiotic bacteria within other organisms, generate most of the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) that fuels cells.
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 21 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 23 Aug 2024