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The 72 pages that link to Eukaryote, each with the reason it gives.

• Endosymbiotic theoryNarrower topic: The theory concerns how key compartments of eukaryotic cells originated.

• Great Oxidation EventRelated: Persistent oxygen eventually supported energy-intensive metabolisms associated with complex life, though eukaryotes arose later.

• Saccharomyces cerevisiaeNarrower topic: S. cerevisiae is a eukaryote, despite being single-celled.

• YeastNarrower topic: Yeast cells have nuclei and organelles, unlike bacteria.

• ArcheanNarrower topic: Eukaryotes arose later, in a world whose chemistry had been transformed since the Archean.

• BacteriaCompared with: Eukaryotic cells have internal compartments absent from bacterial cells.

• FungusNarrower topic: Fungi are eukaryotes, sharing this basic cellular organization with plants and animals.

• Snowball EarthRelated: Postglacial nutrient and oxygen changes have been proposed as influences on eukaryotic diversification.

• AnimalNarrower topic: Animals belong to this broad group of organisms with complex cells.

• DiatomNarrower topic: Diatoms are eukaryotic cells with specialized internal compartments.

• FungiNarrower topic: Fungi belong to this broad group of cellular life.

• ForaminiferaNarrower topic: Foraminifera are eukaryotic cells with complex internal organization.

• OrganelleNarrower topic: Membrane-bound organelles characterize eukaryotic cell organization.

• ArchaeplastidaNarrower topic: Archaeplastida is one major branch within the diversity of eukaryotes.

• MicroorganismNarrower topic: Many microorganisms, including protists, fungi, and algae, are eukaryotes.

• PrecambrianRelated: Eukaryotes arose during the Proterozoic, before complex animals became widespread.

• ProkaryoteCompared with: Eukaryotes have nuclei, the defining structure absent from prokaryotic cells.

• EndosymbiosisNarrower topic: Eukaryotic cells are the hosts in the best-known organelle-forming endosymbioses.

• ProtistNarrower topic: Protists are eukaryotes, distinguished from bacteria and archaea by their cellular organization.

• Lynn MargulisNarrower topic: The cell type whose evolutionary origins Margulis’s theory sought to explain.

• EukaryogenesisNarrower topic: Eukaryogenesis names the evolutionary process that produced this cellular domain.

• BacteriumCompared with: Eukaryotic cells have a nucleus, unlike bacterial cells.

• StramenopileNarrower topic: Stramenopiles are eukaryotes, despite spanning microscopic plankton, seaweeds, and pathogens.

• PaleoproterozoicRelated: Possible early eukaryotic fossils occur in rocks from the later part of the era.

• PlantNarrower topic: Plants are eukaryotes, with nuclei and organelles such as chloroplasts.

• OpisthokontaNarrower topic: Opisthokonta is one major branch within this broader domain of life.

• AlgaeNarrower topic: Most organisms called algae are eukaryotes, despite their wide evolutionary separation.

• ChoanoflagellateNarrower topic: Choanoflagellates are eukaryotes, with the cellular organization shared by animals.

• ProterozoicRelated: Eukaryotes diversified during the eon and became the basis of complex multicellular life.

• SAR supergroupNarrower topic: SAR is one of the major groupings within this broader domain of life.

• AmoebaNarrower topic: Amoebas are eukaryotes, unlike bacteria and archaea.

• ApicomplexaNarrower topic: Apicomplexans are eukaryotes with complex cellular machinery despite being single-celled.

• Asgard archaeaRelated: Eukaryotes are the branch of life most closely related to Asgard archaea.

• Cell nucleusNarrower topic: The nucleus is a defining feature of eukaryotic cell organization.

• EuglenidNarrower topic: Euglenids share the defining cellular organization of eukaryotes.

• MulticellularityNarrower topic: Most familiar multicellular organisms are eukaryotes.

• AlveolataNarrower topic: Alveolata is a lineage within the eukaryotes.

• Entamoeba histolyticaNarrower topic: As a eukaryotic parasite, E. histolytica differs fundamentally from bacterial pathogens.

• LeishmaniaNarrower topic: Leishmania has a nucleus and mitochondrion, unlike bacteria.

• NucleoidCompared with: Eukaryotic chromosomes are enclosed in nuclei rather than concentrated in nucleoids.

• Trypanosoma bruceiNarrower topic: As a eukaryotic parasite, T. brucei has cellular machinery unlike that of bacteria.

• AmoebozoaNarrower topic: Amoebozoa belongs to the eukaryotes, whose cellular organization frames its classification.

• ChromalveolataNarrower topic: Chromalveolata is a proposed grouping within the diversity of eukaryotes.

• ParameciumNarrower topic: Paramecium's cell has a nucleus and membrane-bound compartments.

• RadiolariaNarrower topic: Radiolarians have nuclei and the cellular organization characteristic of eukaryotes.

• ZooxanthellaeNarrower topic: Zooxanthellae have eukaryotic cells with a nucleus and chloroplasts.

• Dictyostelium discoideumNarrower topic: Dictyostelium belongs to the eukaryotic lineage despite its simple, amoeba-like form.

• EuglenaNarrower topic: Euglena’s nucleus and organelles place it among eukaryotes.

• EuglenozoaNarrower topic: Euglenozoa belongs to the broad domain defined by cells with nuclei.

• OpisthokontNarrower topic: Opisthokonts are one major branch of eukaryotic life.