ABSTRACT

Prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, the two types of cell architecture (structure), are the only really different types on earth since even Carl Woese’s “archaebacteria” are nothing but prokaryotes! There is not a single transitional form (“missing link”) between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. It is worth noting that the all-decisive biochemical or functional features that make up a living cell are strikingly uniform in all existing types of living cells. There is not a single biochemical trait in any eukaryote that would not also be found in one or the other of the prokaryotes. Rather, in the opposite

3.1 Introduction ............................................................................................................................ 61 3.2 Energy and Life ...................................................................................................................... 63

3.2.1 ATP, Adenylate Kinase, and Energy Charge .............................................................. 63 3.2.2 Biological Energy Conversion ....................................................................................66