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Why are cheek cells eukaryotic?

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Because ALL cells in an animal with different tissue types are eukaryotic. "Eu" means "good" in Greek and so was chosen as the name for OUR kind of creatures - creatures whose cells have a nuclear membrane insulating the DNA in the core of a cell from the outer areas where each cell handles digestion of materials from the outside of the cell and builds the proteins and enzymes that it uses to do its job. So any cell that is a part of you - like your cheek - is eukaryotic because you are a eukaryote.

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Higher plants and animals are made up of eukaryotic cell, i.e. cell having well defined nucleus. Human being are highest evolved creatures on earth hence they have eukaryotic cells in their body including the cheek cells.

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A cheek cell is eukaryote. Prokaryote cells don't have nucleus but eukaryote cells do.

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it is a eukaryote because it is an animal cell

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A eukaryote has a nucleus and a prokaryote does not. When you swab your cheek cell and observe it under a microscope, you see that it DOES have a nucleus.

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prokaryote has no nucleus

(think Prokaryote = Primitive)

Eukaryote does have a nucleus

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Main feature is having an organized nucleus.Also they have membranous organelles.

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you can tell if the DNA is within the nucleus if the cell then it is eukaryotic but if the DNC is free floating in the cell then its prokaryotic

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