A student wonders whether removing the nucleus from a cell would result in a new prokaryotic cell. Why would this procedure fail to produce a prokaryotic cell?

Removing the nucleus removes the cell’s main store of genetic information. Although prokaryotic cells lack a nucleus, they still have DNA, usually in a region of the cell called the nucleoid, so taking out a nucleus would not turn this cell into a prokaryote. The cell would lack genetic information, as choice C states.

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