CLPC 26

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ENGINEERING
D R . M . A R I VA Z H A G A N
P RO F E S S O R
D E PA RT M E N T O F
CHEMICAL
ENGINEERING
02-09-2020
LECTURE #2
 1. The ability to reproduce.

2. The ability to assimilate or ingest

food substances and metabolize
them for energy and the growth.

LIVING SYSTEM: 3. The ability to excrete the waste

COMMON products.
CHARACTERISTICS
4. The ability to react to the change in
their environment.

5. The susceptibility to the sudden

change in genetic constitution
called mutation.
 Kingdom Kingdom Kingdom
Animalia Fungi Plantae
Absorption

Whittaker’s
Kingdom
Five Protista
Kingdom
Concepts
Kingdom
Monera
 Structure of Electron
Cells Microscope

Structure of
Cells Prokaryotes Eukaryotes
(Prokaryotic (Eukaryotic
Cells) Cells)
 Electron
micrograph
of
Prokaryotic
cell.
Structure of
Prokaryotic
Cell
 1. They have a well-defined nucleus.

2. They are simple in structure and

small.

3. They exist alone.

Prokaryotic 4. Size : 0.5 to 30 µm.

Cells 5. Volume: 10-12 ml per cell.

6. Mass: 10-12 grams per cell.

7. Grow rapidly.

8. Versatile biochemistry.
 1. Membrane encloses neucleus.

2. 1000 to 10000 times bigger than

prokaryotes.

Eukaryotic 3. Higher Organism.

Cells 4. Internal Structure more complex.

5. Size: 10-100µm in diameter.

6. Defined subcellular organelles.

Structure of
Eukaryotic
Cell
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