However, it is worth noting that linear plasmids and chromosomes have been found in certain prokaryotes. 5 Prokaryotes and eukaryotes vary in several important ways – these differences include ...

chromosomes are typically circular. In prokaryotes, the circular chromosome is contained in the cytoplasm in an area called the nucleoid. In contrast, in eukaryotes, all of the cell's chromosomes ...

Supercoiling enables this but forces a different kind of transcription and translation in prokaryotes ... Supercoiling explains how chromosomes fit into a small corner of the cell, but how ...