eukaryote
noun [ C ] biology specialized uk/juːˈkær.i.əʊt/ us/juːˈker.i.oʊt/
真核生物
a type of organism that has one or more cells each with a separate nucleus (= central part) containing chromosomes, which includes all animals and plants
"Animal" is a name reserved for multicellular eukaryotes—organisms that are bigger than a single cell and whose cells have a nucleus. “动物”是多细胞真核生物的专用名词，即比单细胞更大，并且细胞内有细胞核的生物。
Though giardia is a single-celled organism, it belongs to the eukaryotes. 虽然梨形鞭毛虫是一种单细胞生物，但它属于真核生物。
Compare: prokaryote
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- Bacteria and archaea are single-celled organisms without nuclei. But the word microbe is also used to refer to single-celled eukaryotes, things like amoeba.
- Eukaryotes are the group of organisms that includes humans and other mammals.
- Fewer than 10 percent of eukaryotes - plants and animals - have genes acquired via horizontal gene transfer.
- Until now, the genomes of eukaryotes have been analysed using a laborious approach that sequences each chromosome a bit at a time.