A Comparison Between Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells

There are various difference between Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic Cells. The difference between Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic cells are given below with their specipific characters :-

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Sr. No.	Characters			Prokaryotic Cells	Eukaryotic Cells
01	Cell Wall			Present and It is composed of amino sugars and muramic acid	Absent in animal cells but present in plant cells which is composed of cellulose
02	Plasma membrane			Present	Present
03	Capsule			If present then it is composed of mucopolysaflagccharides	Absent
04	Membrane bound organelles			Absent	Present
	a	E.R.		Absent	Present
	b	Golgi complex		Absent	Present
	c	Lysosomes		Absent	Present
	d	Mitochondria		Absent	Present
	e	Vacuole		Absent	Vacuoles are present in plant cell
05	Photosynthetic Apparatus			Usually found in the form of membrane with chlorophyll A and bacteriophyll	Chloroplasts with chlorophyll A and B in plant cells & fungi cells
06	Nucleus			Absent	Present
	a		Nuclear Membrane	Absent	Present
	b		Nucleoplasm	Undifferentiated from cytoplasm	Demarcated from cytoplasm by nuclear membrane
	c		Hereditary Material	DNA or Naked RNA , Present freely in cytoplasm	DNA combined with histone proteins , Present in Nucleus, Mitocondria & Plastids
	d		Chromosomes	Single naked strand of DNA or RNA	More than one strand of DNA and histone protein is present inside the nuclear membrane
	e		Nucleolus	Absent	Present
	f		Nucleoplasm or Nuclear Sap	Not differentiate with cytoplasm	Differentiated by nuclear membrane from cytoplasm
07	Protein Synthesis			In cytoplasm	RNA synthesis in nucleus
08	RNA Synthesis			In Cytoplasm	Protein synthesis in cytoplasm
09	Cell Movement			Flagella	Celia & Flagella , Lamellipodia & Filopodia
10	Flagella			Single . Present in some forms but not in 9 + 2 fibrillar pattern	Celia & flagella. Present in some forms and have 9 + 2 fibrillar arrangement
11	Ribosomes			70 S ( Subunits :  50 S + 30 S )	80 S ( Subunits :  60 S + 40 S )
12	Cell division			Asexual , Amitosis , Binary fission	Sexual, Mitosis & Meiosis
	Cell cycle			Very small , usually takes 20 – 60 minutes to complete	Long , usually takes 12 – 24 hours to complete
13	Exocytosis and Endocytosis			Absent	Present
14	Size			0.1 – 5 µm	5 – 100 µm
15	Organization			Single cell , Colonial	Single cell , colonial , multicellular organisms with specialized cells
16	Plasmids			In some cells	Absent
17	Respiratory enzymes			Present on Plasma Membrane	Present on Mitochondria
18	Cytoskeleten			Absent	Present
19	Examples			Bacteria, Blue green algae, Mycoplasma	Protists , Algae , Fungi , Plants , Animals

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