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Is E. coli a eukaryotic organism?


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Prokaryotes:

  1. These organisms do not have a nuclear membrane and their genetic material is in the cytoplasm.
  2. These organisms do not have membrane-bound organelles.
  3. They have 70s ribosomes.

Eukaryotes:

They have a nucleus that is surrounded by a membrane, and they have organelles and 80s ribosomes.

E. coli:

  1. They are coliform, gram-negative bacteria. Bacteria are prokaryotic entities.
  2. Therefore, E. coli is a prokaryote and not a eukaryote.

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