{"id":4961,"date":"2017-07-11T21:51:15","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T21:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/hccs-waymakerbiology1\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=4961"},"modified":"2024-04-26T00:10:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T00:10:02","slug":"introduction-to-prokaryotic-and-eukaryotic-cells","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/chapter\/introduction-to-prokaryotic-and-eukaryotic-cells\/","title":{"raw":"Introduction to Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes","rendered":"Introduction to Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: Compare prokaryotes and eukaryotes<\/h2>\r\nIn Introduction to Biology, we discussed the diversity of life on earth and mentioned how there are over <a href=\".\/chapter\/reading-the-diversity-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1.9 million species<\/a> of living organisms on earth today. All these species of organisms have one of two different types of cells. In this section, we will compare the two cell types: prokaryotic and eukaryotic.\r\n\r\nWithin these two broad categories of cells, there are many diverse life forms.\u00a0For example, both animal and plant cells are classified as eukaryotic cells, whereas all the many bacterial cells are classified as prokaryotic.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: Compare prokaryotes and eukaryotes<\/h2>\n<p>In Introduction to Biology, we discussed the diversity of life on earth and mentioned how there are over <a href=\".\/chapter\/reading-the-diversity-of-life\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1.9 million species<\/a> of living organisms on earth today. All these species of organisms have one of two different types of cells. In this section, we will compare the two cell types: prokaryotic and eukaryotic.<\/p>\n<p>Within these two broad categories of cells, there are many diverse life forms.\u00a0For example, both animal and plant cells are classified as eukaryotic cells, whereas all the many bacterial cells are classified as prokaryotic.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-4961\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning and Veronica Amaku. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":18798,"menu_order":4,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Introduction to Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Cells\",\"author\":\"Lumen Learning and Veronica Amaku\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"b50dd44b-a7aa-4828-a27a-9c80459e3c24","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-4961","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":103,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/4961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18798"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/4961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5089,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/4961\/revisions\/5089"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/103"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/4961\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=4961"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-nmbiology1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=4961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}