What is the difference between procaryote and eucaryote?

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Within the cell in most plants and animals, there are various membrane bound structures called as organelles like mitochondria, chloroplast, nucleus etc. Such a cell is known as an eukaryote. There are non membraneous bound organelles also present in eukaryotic cells. They are mainly the ribosomes and centriole. Each cell organelle performs a specific function of the cell in a well organised manner.
In other cell like in bacteria and blue green algae cells, there are no difinite cell organelles and the nucleoplasm and cytoplasm is not separated. Such a cell is known as a prokaryote. Prokaryotic cells can also carry out all biological functions similar to those of eukaryotic cells whcih are needed to for their existence of living. However the absence of membrane bound structures within the cell simply shows that they are primitive cells.
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