Looking at some pond water with a light microscope, you notice an unfamiliar rod-shaped cell about 200

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Looking at some pond water with a light microscope, you notice an unfamiliar rod-shaped cell about 200 μm long. Knowing that some exceptional bacteria can be as big as this or even bigger, you wonder whether your cell is a bacterium or a eukaryote. How will you decide? If it is not a eukaryote, how will you discover whether it is a bacterium or an archaeon?

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Essential Cell Biology

ISBN: 9780393680362

5th Edition

Authors: Bruce Alberts, Karen Hopkin, Alexander Johnson, David Morgan, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

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