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THE idea of Stanier and van Niel1 that bacteria (and possibly blue-green algae) are “prokaryotic” organisms, lacking a nuclear membrane, appears to have been accepted almost without argument. All other cells possess such a membrane, and are “eukaryotic”, according to this theory.
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BISSET, K. Do Bacteria Have a Nuclear Membrane?. Nature 241, 45 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/241045a0
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