Difference Between Prokaryotic Cell and Eukaryotic Cell

What is Prokaryotic Cell or Prokaryotes?

Prokaryotes are single-celled organisms that are the earliest and most primitive forms of life in the earth. These cells are cells are which have not any true nucleus.

What are Eukaryotic cells or Eukaryotes?

Eukaryotic cells are cells that contain a nucleus and organelles and enclosed by a plasma membrane. Organisms that have Eukaryotic cells include Protozoa, fungi, plant and animals.

Here, the differences between Prokaryotic cells and Eukaryotic cells are given below.

Difference between Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes

Serial no.	Structure	Prokaryotic Cell	Eukaryotic cells
1.	Nuclear membrane	Absent	Present
2.	Nucleolus	Absent	Present
3.	Chromosome	One, circular	More than one, linear
4.	Location	Free in cytoplasm attached to mesosomes	Contained in membrane bound structure
5.	Replication	Binary fission	Mitotic fission
6.	Extra-chromosomal DNA	Plasmid	Inside the mitochondria
7.	Cytoplasm Cytoplasm organelles like mitochondria, golgi apparatus, and endoplasmic reticulum	Absent	Present
8.	Cytoplasmic streaming	Absent	Present
9.	Lysosomes	Absent	Present
10	Ribosomes are protein production site	70S (50S+30S), free in cytoplasm or bound to cell membrane.	80S (60S+40S) attached to rough endoplasmic reticulum.
11.	Chemical composition Cell wall	Present	Absent, except for fungi that have chitinous cell wall.
12.	Sterols	Absent	Present
13.	Muramic acid	Present	Absent
14.	Energy production site	Electron transport chain located in cell membrane.	Within membrane bound area.