{"id":12018,"date":"2023-06-11T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12018"},"modified":"2025-03-30T06:50:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T01:20:24","slug":"what-is-protosterol-biota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-protosterol-biota\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Protosterol Biota?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Protosterol Biota:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>microscopic organism<\/strong>, belongs to the family of organisms called <strong>eukaryotes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These are discovered inside a rock at the bottom of <strong>the ocean near what<\/strong> is now the <strong>Northern Territory in Australia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They have a complex structure combining mitochondria.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are eukaryotes?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>These cells possess a <strong>clearly defined nucleus.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These cell <strong>have a<\/strong> <strong>nuclear membrane<\/strong> that surrounds the nucleus, in which the well-defined chromosomes (bodies containing the hereditary material) are located.<\/li>\n<li>These cells also contain <strong>organelles<\/strong>, including mitochondria (cellular energy exchangers), a Golgi apparatus (secretory device), an <strong>endoplasmic reticulum<\/strong> (a canal-like system of membranes within the cell), <strong>and lysosomes<\/strong> (digestive apparatus within many cell types).<\/li>\n<li>These are thought to have evolved between about 1.7 billion and 1.9 billion years ago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are Prokaryotes?<\/h3>\n<p>Prokaryotes are a group of organisms that constitute one of the two major domains of life, the other being eukaryotes. They are single-celled organisms that lack a distinct nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles. Prokaryotes include bacteria and archaea.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/science\/story\/lost-world-of-early-ancestors-discovered-they-lived-underwater-16-billion-years-ago-2390362-2023-06-08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Lost world of early ancestors discovered. They lived underwater 1.6 billion years ago<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protosterol Biota is the microscopic organism belonging to the family of organisms called eukaryotes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12019,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}