During meiosis, the cells needed for sexual reproduction ... of the parent cell's cytoplasm. However, binary fission is less complex than mitosis due to the fact that prokaryotic cells have ...

Eukaryotic cell DNA in a nucleus, plasmids are found in a few simple eukaryotic organisms. Prokaryotic cell DNA is a single molecule, found free in the cytoplasm; additional DNA is found on one or ...

Mitochondria — often called the powerhouses of the cell — enable eukaryotes to make more efficient use of food sources than their prokaryotic counterparts. That's because these organelles ...