Early one morning in a microbiology class, a student examining his cheek scraping slide with a light microscope, spots an unusual bunch of cells mixed in with the large nucleated cells from his cheek. His instructor takes a look and informs him that they are bacteria. Would those be prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells?

a. both
b. neither
c. prokaryotic
d. eukaryotic


c. prokaryotic

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