Note that eukaryotic cells likely evolved from a symbiotic relationship between two prokaryotic cells, whereby one set of prokaryotic DNA eventually became separated by a nuclear envelope and ...

Eukaryotes are thought to have originated through a process known as endosymbiosis, in which an ancestral prokaryotic cell engulfed ... gene transfer between early microbial communities may have ...

Daniel Mills, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München During this time, some of the defining characteristics of modern eukaryotic cells—the nucleus ... may have resulted from a partnership between a ...

The most important structural difference between eukaryotic and prokaryotic ... mechanisms of gene regulation in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells (Pulverer, 2005). In eukaryotes, regulation ...