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How the Archaea live: Unique features of archaeal metabolism

Author(s) -

John van der Oost

Publication year - 2004

Publication title -

the biochemist

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 1740-1194

pISSN - 0954-982X

DOI - 10.1042/bio02603007

Subject(s) - archaea , multicellular organism , three domain system , biology , organelle , bacteria , nucleus , cytoplasm , evolutionary biology , microbiology and biotechnology , genetics , cell

A major scientific milestone was Carl Woese's discovery that the evolution of life on Earth has resulted in three distinct types of living systems:Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya1. Organisms that belong to the eukaryal domain are clearly different from the former two because of their more complex structural organization: without exception, they possess intracellular compartments (at least a nucleus, often with additional organelles), and in addition they often have a multicellular composition. The Archaea and the Bacteria are prokaryotes: they have neither a nucleus nor any other cytoplasmic compartments, and are generally unicellular.

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