Normal Eukaryotic Cell koning at ECSUC.CTSTATEU.EDU Tue Sep 30
15:41:12 EST 1997 At 10:25 AM -0400 9/30/97, David Hagerberg
wrote: >In our PhD-course in mycology we started to discuss what
special >features there are in a fungal cell compared to the
normal eukaryotic >cell. Soon we started to discuss what the
*normal* eukaryotic cell is. >Now I would like to release for
discussion: >What is a normal eukaryotic cell? >What is the most
common eukaryotic cell? This is an interesting question and one
could write much about it. When I write "typical" or typical, I
hope you will see the quotation marks I intend to use. This is
something I say in every course about cell biology in my Indeed
as far as plants go, most textbooks will show some kind of
parenchyma cell as "typical." But certainly in terms of numbers
of plant cells on earth, I'd bet that most of them are dead with
no cytoplasm and only walls left (ie secondary xylem in trees!).
The "typical" plant cell will usually show chloroplasts. While
certain plant c