prokaryote

  1. Noun.  an organism characterized by the absence of a nuclear membrane and by DNA that is not organized into chromosomes.
  2. Noun.  in the two-empire system of biological taxonomy, an organism of the kingdom Prokaryotae (now superseded).

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