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BIOLOGY

Discovery of Nitrogen-Fixing Cell-organelle Nitroplast in a Eukaryotic Algae   

Umesh Prasad -
Biosynthesis of proteins and nucleic acid require nitrogen however atmospheric nitrogen is not available to eukaryotes for organic synthesis. Only few prokaryotes (such as...
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Eukaryotes: Story of Its Archaeal Ancestry

Umesh Prasad -
The traditional grouping of life forms into prokaryotes and eukaryotes was revised in 1977 when rRNA sequence characterisation revealed that archaea (then called 'archaebacteria')...
BIOLOGY

Thiomargarita magnifica: The Biggest Bacterium that Challenges the Idea of Prokaryote 

Umesh Prasad -
Thiomargarita magnifica shows presence of prokaryotic phylogenetic marker 16S rRN. If it were a eukaryote, the phylogenetic typing would reveal presence of 18S rRNA gene sequence...

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