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Can prokaryotic cells get cancer similar to eukaryotic cells?

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Single-celled creatures cannot get cancer as it is a uniquely multicellular “disease”. Cancer is when one cell doesn't act in accordance to the cells around them, and divides, only stopping once resources are depleted. Because there is only one cell, there can't be any cancer. read more

2.Animal cells don't have cell walls.Whereas in prokaryotes, only the nucleic acids enter the cell, in animal viruses, often the entire virus enters the cell by means of endocytosis, and so the virus must also uncoat. read more

Eukaryotic cells contain many membrane-enclosed, large, complex organelles in the cytoplasm whereas prokaryotic cells do not contain these membrane-bound organelles. This is a key difference because it allows a high level of intracellular division of labor and contributes to the greater complexity characteristic of eukaryotic cells. read more

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