How to Use eukaryotic in a Sentence
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Five percent may seem like a small sliver of the eukaryotic pie.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
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But an important step on it was the first eukaryotic cell.
—The Economist, 17 Mar. 2021
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The discovery fills in a large gap in the history of complex, eukaryotic life on Earth.
—Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 8 June 2023
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Now, researchers have traced the origin of eukaryotic steroids almost a billion years further back in time.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 June 2023
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Some of the eukaryotic cells had a 'halo' coating of organic compounds around them, Schreder-Gomes said.
—Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 17 May 2022
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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
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For that reason, all eukaryotic cells are equipped with special genetic shears called spliceosomes.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
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All complex forms of life, including plants and animals, consist of complex eukaryotic cells.
—Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 28 June 2022
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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
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The similar shape of mirusviruses and herpesviruses suggests that these eukaryotic viruses share a common ancestor.
—Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
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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
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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
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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
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Our earth is home to approximately 9 million eukaryotic species.
—Sheetal R. Modi, Discover Magazine, 12 June 2014
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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