Example sentences for: eukaryote

How can you use “eukaryote” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Hence, it is likely to have been present in the ancestral crown-group eukaryote and secondarily lost in S. cerevisiae.

  • These include Saccharomyces cerevisiae [ 1], a unicellular eukaryote, two multicellular organisms, Caenorhabditis elegans [ 2], and Drosophila melanogaster [ 3] and Arabidopsis thaliana, the first plant genome to be completed [ 4].

  • Therefore, a dual-gamma approach was taken whereby the eukaryote rate was estimated using the eukaryote gamma parameter and the time estimate (involving prokaryotes) was made using the overall gamma parameter.

  • Plant molecular biologist Chris Bowler (Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France and Stazione Zoologica, Napoli, Italy) explains that molecular phylogeny and morphological studies suggest that diatoms originated ‘probably as the result of a eukaryote being invaded or engulfed by a photosynthetic eukaryote, most probably a red alga’.

  • However, because Giardia arose at an early time (Table 1) and branches near the base of the eukaryote phylogeny, the simplest explanation is that it never possessed mitochondria and is a primary (not secondary) amitochondriate.


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