How to Use eukaryote in a Sentence

eukaryote

noun

• Branching out The EBP’s stated goal is to sequence, within a decade, the genomes of all 1.5m known species of eukaryotes.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
• But things changed with the evolution of eukaryotes more than 2.5 billion years ago.
  — Jon Kelvey, Smithsonian, 11 June 2019
• There weren’t just two—there were five, and some were eukaryotes (with nucleuses), and some were prokaryotes (without).
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2019
• The fragments contained genes from a species of archaea that seemed to be closely related to eukaryotes.
  — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2020
• The search for the first eukaryote has researchers painstakingly coaxing rare microbes from seafloor sludge.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• Welcome to Asgard Complex cells, called eukaryotes, carry a mixture of three types of genes.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2019
• But archaea and eukaryotes turn out to be similar in other respects, and archaea are unique in yet others.
  — David P. Barash, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
• Families are the taxonomic group above the genus level and the eukaryotes comprise roughly 9,300 of them.
  — The Economist, 23 Jan. 2018
• Broad’s team, led by Feng Zhang, published a paper that described its success in eukaryotes in January 2013.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 26 June 2019
• Life was limited to the oceans and large creatures had yet to evolve, but fossils show that microscopic eukaryotes such as algae lived before and after the episode.
  — Byadam Mann, science.org, 4 Apr. 2023
• Those components, or organelles, characterize cells of the third branch, the eukaryotes.
  — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 8 Aug. 2019
• But that wasn’t complete either, and scientists made a third domain in addition to eukaryotes and prokaryotes: the archaea.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 15 Nov. 2019
• Mitochondria must have evolved in the common ancestor of eukaryotes, some 1.8 billion years ago.
  — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
• Mitochondria may have been born early in the evolution of eukaryotes.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 Oct. 2015
• This organism isn't an animal, plant or fungus but a eukaryote.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 23 May 2018
• This analysis revealed a new phylum of DNA viruses that are shaped like herpesviruses and infect eukaryotes but share a key enzyme with large and giant viruses.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 25 Apr. 2023
• In a fateful encounter, a cyanobacterium was engulfed by a eukaryote, a cell that had evolved the capacity for internal organs, and lived on within its membrane.
  — Lucy Jakub, The New York Review of Books, 1 Dec. 2020
• In contrast to eukaryotes, which all have a suite of organelles in common, different groups of prokaryotes showcase their own specialized compartments.
  — Quanta Magazine, 27 Aug. 2019
• But a deeper mystery surrounds the emergence of the nucleus; no one even knows whether that ancient archaeon was already a kind of proto-eukaryote with a nucleus, or whether the nucleus came later.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 Nov. 2020
• This year, scientists found a way to fill in an 800-million-year gap in the molecular fossil record between the appearance of the earliest eukaryote and that of the most recent ancestor of all eukaryotes alive today.
  — Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2023
• Geochemists and paleontologists look to fossilized traces of these sterols as evidence for the presence of eukaryotes in ancient ecosystems.
  — Bygretchen Vogel, science.org, 7 June 2023
• Her team had not only isolated and cultivated the organism for the first time but shown that its flailing filaments were made of actin, the protein that forms a skeletal scaffold in almost all complex cells, or eukaryotes.
  — Joshua Sokol, Quanta Magazine, 11 Apr. 2023
• Instead of feeding on molecular debris, eukaryotes now had enough fuel to chase after bacteria and engulf them.
  — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018
• But tracing the earliest eukaryotes back through Earth’s history has been difficult.
  — Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 23 Oct. 2023
• This is the first eukaryote — organisms, like plants and animals, whose cells contain distinct nuclei — found without the machinery of mitochondria.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
• This is the first eukaryote — organisms, like plants and animals, whose cells contain distinct nuclei — found without the machinery of mitochondria.
  — Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 15 Dec. 2016
• Many of Earth’s extremophiles belong to the Archaea domain, a superkingdom on the tree of life that is separate from both bacteria as well as the eukaryotes, which encompass all plants, fungi and animals, including us.
  — Robin George Andrews, New York Times, 1 Nov. 2019
• Mixoplankton are protists, which are basically any eukaryote—an organism with one or more cells that have a nucleus and organelles—that isn’t an animal, plant or fungus.
  — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 7 Dec. 2022
• Grypania may have been either a bacterial colony or a eukaryote — an organism with specialized cells, enclosed in a membrane.
  — Brandon Keim, WIRED, 30 June 2010
• This symbiosis spiraled upward, allowing eukaryote cells to become far bigger, far more complex, than any cell before.
  — Carl Zimmer, STAT, 30 May 2018

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