MadSci Network: Microbiology
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Re: Does the cytoplasm in prokaryotic cells exclude the nucleoid region?

Date: Wed Feb 11 02:51:40 2009
Posted By: Devendra Dusane, Research Scholar (BARC-UoP Research Programme)
Area of science: Microbiology
ID: 1225750257.Mi
Message:

Does the cytoplasm in prokaryotic cells exclude the nucleoid region?

The nucleoid region is a nuclear store material. In case of prokaryotes there is no distinct nuclear membrane present as observed in eukaryotes. It is a part of the prokaryotic cell cytoplasm. The cytoplasm of prokaryotic cell contains nucleoid region as one of the cellular inclusions.

DNA in the bacterial cell is generally confined to this central region. Though a membrane doesn’t bind it, it is visibly distinct (by transmission microscopy) from the rest of the cell interior.

Rrgards,

Devendra Dusane


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