3 This discovery implies that prokaryotes may have possessed more advanced cellular structures and functions than previously thought, potentially influencing how the first eukaryotic cells emerged.

Planctomycetes challenge our concept of the bacterial cell and of a prokaryote as a cell structure type, as well as our ideas about origins of the eukaryote nucleus. Planctomycetes Are Important ...

the mere presence of a nucleus is considered one of the defining features of a eukaryotic cell. This structure is so important because it is the site at which the cell's DNA is housed and the ...