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Bacterium are examples of prokaryotes, because in order for a cell to be classified as a prokaryote it can't have membrane covered organelles at all, nor can it have a nucleus. The only "organelle", per say for lack of a better word, that a bacterium has would be ribosomes. All it has is a cell wall and cell membrane. (if we are only talking about basic Biology)

A bacteria is an example of a prokaryote because it has these characteristics.

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Bacteria are grouped as Prokaryotes due to the fact that they have to membrane bound organelles and they do not have a centralized nucleus. Whereas eukaryotes have both a nucleus and numerous membrane bound organelles.

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