Biology › Section C · Cell structure and membranes › Topic C.2
Eukaryotic cells
A eukaryotic cell is a factory with rooms. Where a prokaryote keeps everything in one open hall, the eukaryote walls off the genome in a true nucleus and parcels the chemistry into membrane-bound organelles — compartments where conditions, tools, and reactions can be tuned independently.
In this topic
- The cell with rooms
- The nucleus: library and vault
- Ribosomes: the construction crews
- Mitochondria: the power plants
- Chloroplasts: the solar farms
- Lysosomes: the recycling centres
- Peroxisomes: the detox tanks
- Vesicles and vacuoles: storage and shipping
- Worked example: reading the endosymbiosis fingerprint
- Worked example: predicting organelle abundance from function
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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