Definition & Meaning | English word EOCYTE
EOCYTE
Definitions of EOCYTE
- (dated, biology) Any archaeon of the phylum Crenarchaeota
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using EOCYTE in a Sentence
- Alternatives to the three-domain system include the earlier two-empire system (with the empires Prokaryota and Eukaryota), and the eocyte hypothesis (with two domains of Bacteria and Archaea, with Eukarya included as a branch of Archaea).
- The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis posits that eukaryotes are composed of three ancestral elements: a viral component that became the modern nucleus; a prokaryotic cell (an archaeon according to the eocyte hypothesis) which donated the cytoplasm and cell membrane of modern cells; and another prokaryotic cell (here bacterium) that, by endocytosis, became the modern mitochondrion or chloroplast.
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