Question

A student wonders whether removing the nucleus from a cell would result in a new prokaryotic cell. Why would this procedure fail to produce a prokaryotic cell?

Answer 1

well assuming the original cell is a prokaryotic, you wouldn't be able to remove the nucleus because prokaryotic cells don't have a nucleus to begin with. if this doesn't help then: The cell would lack genetic information.

Answer 2

Removing the nucleus from the cell would not make it prokaryote because there are more characteristics that makes a cell prokaryote.

A eukaryotic cell has nucleus as well as membrane bound organelles found in the cytoplasm.

Even if the student will remove nucleus from the cell, the membrane bound cell organelles will remain in the cell.

Hence, only removing the nucleus from the cell would not make it a new prokaryotic cell.