John Doe looks under a microscope to identify a cell. He notices that the cell has a cell wall, but it does not have a nucleus. What can John Doe infer from what he saw under the microscope?

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It could be a plant cell
It could be a plant cell

It is an animal cell.
It is an animal cell.

It must be prokaryotic.
It must be prokaryotic.

It is probably fungi.

Answer 1

Based on the observations that the cell has a cell wall but does not have a nucleus, John Doe can infer that:

It must be prokaryotic.

This is because prokaryotic cells (such as bacteria) lack a true nucleus and typically have a cell wall, while plant cells and fungal cells, which also have cell walls, are eukaryotic and contain a nucleus.