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Their structures have to do more things (in an apartment the living room is also the dining room), This analogy applies to cells because simpler prokaryotic cells, which have less structures. It also applies to more complex eukaryotic cells that have more structures, where each structure only does a singular task. (In a mansion each room, only serves one purpose.) I believe it means that even though the homes/cells may appear different, they all include the same basic essentials.
Explanation:
An apartment could represent a prokaryotic cell while a mansion could represent a eukaryotic cell, since the latter is much larger and more complex.
Prokaryotic cells are unicellular organisms that lack membranous organelles and whose genetic material is dispersed in the cytoplasm in an area called the nucleoid. Examples of these type of cells are bacteria, microscopic organism. They are small cells, approximately 1-10 µm, and they have the following components:
- Cell membrane
- Cell wall
- Cytoplasm
- Nucleoid
- Plasmids
- Ribosomes
- Periplasm
- Flagellum
- Capsule
- Pili or fimbriae
- Glycocalyx
On the other hand, eukaryotic cells present organelles with membranes and an organized cell nucleus containing DNA. They are larger than prokaryotic cells, 10-30 µm in size. Examples of eukaryotic cells are the ones that form complex organisms such as animals and plants. However, there are also some eukaryotic unicellular organisms, such as protozoa. They have the following components:
- Cell membrane
- Cell wall (in plants)
- Cytoplasm
- Mitochondria
- Chloroplasts
- Ribosome
- Lysosome
- Golgi apparatus
- Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Rough Endoplasmic Reticulum
- Centriole
- Flagellum (not in all)
- Vacuole
- Microtubules
- Vesicles
Prokaryotes and eukaryotes vary in several important ways and these differences include structural variation, whether a nucleus is present or absent, and whether the cell has membrane-bound organelles, and molecular variation, including whether the DNA is in circular or linear form. Since prokaryotic cells are so much smaller and simpler, they would be like an apartment, while eukaryotic cells are like a mansion because they are much more bigger, have more structures and are more complex. In a smaller space everything is close at hand, while in a larger space more organization is needed to find things efficiently. Eukaryotic cells, as they form more complex organisms, need to produce more energy and have a larger number of organelles, with more important functions, so the cell needs a larger size to accommodate them.
Therefore, eukaryotic cells resembles a mansion and prokaryotic cells resembles an apartment. This is because of the larger size of the eukaryotes and its cellular machinery which is more complex since it has an endomembrane system which enables greater metabolic efficiency. This allows the separation of functions in the cytoplasm. And prokaryotes are much smaller and simpler, they do not need so much metabolic efficiency or a big size.
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