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Introduction to Biology - MIT Open Course Ware http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/biology/7-012-introduction-to-biology-fall-2004/study-materials/ Problem Set 1

Question 1

Bob, a student taking 7.012, looks at a long-standing puddle outside his dorm window. Curious as to what was growing in the cloudy water, he takes a sample to his TA, Brad Student. He wanted to know whether the organisms in the sample were prokaryotic or eukaryotic.

a) Give an example of a prokaryotic and a eukaryotic organism.

Prokaryotic:

Eukaryotic:

b) Using a light microscope, how could he tell the difference between a prokaryotic organism

and a eukaryotic one?

c) What additional differences exist between prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms?