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Compare and contrast a motor nuerone and a bacterium The first
200 words of this essay... The aim of this essay is to compare
and contrast a salmonella bacteria (prokaryotic) cell with a
motor neurone (eukariotic) cell. Cells are the basic structures
contained in all living organisms, their function, size and
shape differ depending on which organism serves as its host.
They are catagorised as either eukaryotic or prokaryotic cells,
prokaryotic being the old Greek term meaning 'before nucleus'.
It wasn't until the 17th century that cells were discovered by
the European Antonie van Leeuwenhoek with his latest invention -
a very primitive microscope. These new discoveries were later
named by an English scientist by the name of Robert Hooke.
(Wikipedia 2007) The eukaryotic cell can be found in either
animals or plants, although the two are very different in both
structure and function. The an