Sentences with phrase «enclosed by membranes»

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Eukaryotes are the most structurally complex known cell type, and by definition are in part organized by smaller interior compartments, that are themselves enclosed by lipid membranes that resemble the outermost cell membrane.

«By diversifying our labeling approaches, we also visualized different types of individual biomolecules in the chromosome - containing nucleus, including sequences in the DNA, proteins bound to DNA or the membrane that encloses the nucleus, as well as nuclear RNAs,» adds Yin, who is also co-leader of the Wyss Institute's Molecular Robotics Initiative, and Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School..

Images taken with an electron microscope confirmed that not only was its DNA separate from the rest of the cell, it was enclosed by a double membrane — just like the membrane envelope surrounding the nucleus of complex cells.

cell The most basic part of a living thing, made up of a jelly - like substance called cytoplasm that is enclosed by a thin membrane.