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A diagram of a eukaryote cell, showing that chromosomal DNA is located in the nucleus
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Etymology [ edit ]
Borrowed from French eucaryote ; equivalent to eu- + karyon + a suffix derived from Ancient Greek -ώτης ( -ṓtēs ) .
Pronunciation [ edit ]
eukaryote (plural eukaryotes or eukarya )
( cytology ) Any of the single -celled or multicellular organisms of the taxonomic domain Eukaryota , whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus .
1962 March, Roger Stanier, “The concept of a bacterium”, in Archiv für Mikrobiologie , volume 42 , number 1, page 17 :It is now clear that among organisms there are two different organizational patterns of cells, which Chatton (1937) called, with singuar prescience, the eucaryotic and procaryotic type.
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any of the single-celled or multicellular organisms whose cells contain at least one distinct nucleus
Arabic: حقيقيات النوى
Armenian: էուկարիոտ (hy) ( ēukariot )
Bengali: সুকেন্দ্রিক ( śukendrik ) , ইউক্যারিওট ( iukkariōṭ )
Catalan: eucariota (ca) m
Chinese:
Cantonese: 真核生物 ( zan1 hat6 sang1 mat6 )
Mandarin: 真核生物 (zh) ( zhēnhé shēngwù )
Czech: eukaryota
Dutch: eukaryoten (nl) pl
Esperanto: eŭkariotoj pl
Estonian: eukarüoot (et) pl
Finnish: aitotumainen (fi) , aitotumallinen (fi) , eukaryootti (fi)
French: eucaryote (fr)
Georgian: ეუკარიოტი ( euḳarioṭi )
German: Eukaryot (de) m
Greek: ευκαρυώτης m ( efkaryótis )
Hebrew: אֵיקָרְיוֹט (he) ( eykaryót )
Hungarian: eukarióta (hu)
Icelandic: heilkjörnungur m
Indonesian: eukaryota , eukariota (id)
Italian: eucariota m
Japanese: 真核生物 (ja) ( しんかくせいぶつ, shinkaku seibutsu )
Kazakh: эукариот ( éukariot )
Khmer: អឺការីយ៉ូត ( ʼəɨkaariiyout )
Korean: 진핵생물(眞核生物) (ko) ( jinhaeksaengmul )
Latin: eukaryota f
Latvian: eikariots
Lithuanian: eukariotas m
Low German: eukaryota
Luxembourgish: eukaryoten pl
Malayalam: യൂക്കാരിയോട്ടുകൾ ( yūkkāriyōṭṭukaḷ )
Norwegian: eukaryoter
Occitan: eukarya f
Persian: هوهسته ( huhaste ) , یوکاریوت
Polish: jądrowiec m , eukariont (pl) m
Portuguese: eucariota m , eucarioto m , eucarionte (pt) m
Quechua: kawsaykuq hukiyuq
Romanian: eucariotă (ro) f
Russian: эукарио́та f ( eukarióta )
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: еукариоте , еукариот
Roman: eukariote , eukarìōt m
Slovak: evkariont
Spanish: eucarionte (es) f
Sundanese: eukariot
Swedish: eukaryot (sv) c
Thai: ยูแคริโอต ( yu-kraeyòht )
Turkish: ökaryot (tr)
Vietnamese: sinh vật nhân chuẩn (生物 仁 純 ), sinh vật nhân thực (生物 仁 實 ), sinh vật nhân điển hình (生物 仁 典型 ), sinh vật có nhân chính thức (生物 箇 仁 正式 )
Walloon: eucariote
Welsh: ewcaryot