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eucaryot

eucaryot is the alternative form of eukaryote.

Meaning of eukaryote

Noun

eukaryote (plural eukaryotes or eukarya)

  1. Any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota, whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus.
    • It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singular prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.1962 March, Roger Stanier, “The concept of a bacterium”, in Archiv für Mikrobiologie, volume 42, number 1, page 17

Forms of eucaryot

pluraleucaryots

Questions about eucaryot

What is eucaryot the alternative form of?
Eucaryot is the alternative form of eukaryote.

Words near eucaryot in the dictionary

  1. eucarpic
  2. eucarpy
  3. eucarvone
  4. eucaryon
  5. eucaryons
  6. eucaryot
  7. eucaryote
  8. eucaryotes
  9. eucaryotic
  10. eucaryots
  11. eucasin

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