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prokaryotes

prokaryotes is the plural of prokaryote.

Meaning of prokaryote

Noun

prokaryote (plural prokaryotes)

  1. An organism whose cell (or cells) are characterized by the absence of a nucleus or any other membrane-bound organelles.
  2. In the two-empire system of biological taxonomy, an organism of the kingdom Prokaryotae (now superseded).

Questions about prokaryotes

What is prokaryotes the plural of?
Prokaryotes is the plural of prokaryote.

Words near prokaryotes in the dictionary

  1. projets
  2. projicience
  3. projicient
  4. projicients
  5. prokaryote
  6. prokaryotes
  7. prokaryotic
  8. prokaryotically
  9. proke
  10. proked
  11. prokeimena

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