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Prokaryotes, Eukaryotes, & Viruses
Prokaryotes Characteristics
of prokaryotic cells.
 Prokaryotes include the kingdoms of Monera
(simple bacteria) and Archaea. Simply stated, prokaryotes are molecules surrounded by a
membrane and cell wall. Prokaryotic cells lack characteristic eukaryotic subcellular
membrane enclosed "organelles", but may contain membrane systems inside a cell
wall. Prokaryotic cells may have photosynthetic pigments, such as is found in
cyanobacteria ("blue bacteria"). Some prokaryotic cells have external whip-like
flagella for locomotion or hair like pili for adhesion. Prokaryotic cells come in multiple
shapes: cocci (round), baccilli (rods), and spirilla or spirochetes (helical cells). |
Bacteria & antibiotics
Pseudomonas bacteria |
The cell wall is the target for antibiotics, as well as for carbohydrates that
our immune system uses to detect infection. A major threat to humankind is the
antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria have been selected by overuse of antibiotics. |
Sympathy for the life of bacteria
 | You have 0.001 times as much DNA as a eukaryotic cell. |
| You live in a medium which has a viscosity about equal to asphalt. |
| You have a wonderful "motor" for swimming. Unfortunately, your motor can only
run in two directions and at one speed. In foward, you are propelled in one direction at
30 mph. In reverse your motor makes you turn flips or tumble. You can only do one of the
other. You cannot stop. |
| While you can "learn", you divide every twenty minutes and have to restart
your education. |
| You can have sex, with males possessing a sexual apparatus for transferring genetic
information to receptive females. However, since you are both going 30 mph it is difficult
to find each other. Furthermore, if you are male, nature gave you a severe problem.
Everytime you mate with a female, she turns into a male. In bacteria, "maleness"
is an infective venereal disease. |
| Also, at fairly high frequencies, spontaneous mutations cause you to turn into a
female. |
| Eukaryotes have enslaved some of your "brethren" to use as energy generating
mitochondria and choloroplasts. They are also using you as a tool in a massive effort to
understand genetics. The method of recombinant DNA is designed to exploit you for their
own good. There is no SPCA to protect you. |
| The last laugh may be yours. You have spent three and a half billion years
practicing chemical warfare. Humans thought that antibiotics would end infectious
diseases, but the overuse of drugs has resulted in the selection of drug resistant
bacteria. They didn't realize that this was only the first battle, and now the war is
ready to begin. |
| Humans think this is their era. A more truthful statement would be that we all
live in the age of bacteria. |
The Archaea are becoming more understood
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For More Information Contact:
LifeForce Hospitals
P.O.BOX 152333 , Austin, Tx 78715-2333
Tel: 1-888-205-3262
FAX: 1-888-205-3262
Internet: medmail@usa.net
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