Example sentences for: prokaryotes

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

  • The alternative hypothesis - that gene duplications are fixed in a population by positive selection in all organisms - is supported by a combination of evidence of adaptive duplications from many types of living organisms: prokaryotes [ 31, 33, 45, 46, 48, 50, 55, 56], protists [ 35, 58, 59], plants [ 39, 44], fungi [ 43, 49], invertebrates [ 40, 41, 51, 52, 53], non-mammalian vertebrates [ 54], as well as mammalian somatic tissues [ 34, 36, 37, 38].

  • These included finding greater among-site rate variation in the calibration group and different rates of sequence change between prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and between eukaryotes derived from different groups of prokaryotes.

  • Besides this general pattern, which may reflect fundamental differences between prokaryotes and eukaryotes (e.g.

  • For example, the time estimate for the origin of eukaryotes (BK-o) is not based on a general assumption of rate constancy between prokaryotes (or even eubacteria) and eukaryotes because rates are adjusted for each protein and each comparison.

  • To address the issue of how gene order is conserved during evolution, I measured gene order conservation in prokaryotes in relation to evolutionary distance in terms of small subunit rRNA (SSU rRNA) substitutions.


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