Question

A student wonders whether removing the nucleus from a cell would result in a new prokaryotic cell would this procedure failed to produce a prokaryotic cell

A) the cell would lack genetic information

B) The cell would lack the structure that is needed to protect the cells organelles

C) The cell will lack the structure that is needed to protect the cells organelles

D) The cell would lack control over materials that move into and out of the cell

Answer 1

I would say the answer though is B. If you just have a nucleus it wouldn’t survive. The genetic material isn’t enough for survival. It needs ribosomes to read the mRNA...wouldn’t be there. You need other organelles to ensure the building blocks of the cell get where they need to be...there’s no membrane...how would you build another one with no ‘template’? So there would be no structure to survive.