You find a population of strange cells in a sample of pond water. you wish to determine first whether they are eukaryotic or prokaryotic. you look for a membrane-enclosed nucleus and don't see one, but sometimes the nucleus is hard to spot without staining. what else could you look for to determine which cell type this is?

Membrane bound cell organelles

Explanation:

A prokaryotic cell lacks a membrane defined nucleus and all the membrane-bound organelles. A eukaryotic cell has a membrane-bound nucleus and other membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria, chloroplasts, endoplasmic reticulum, lysosomes, Golgi apparatus, etc.

To determine if a cell is a prokaryotic or eukaryotic, one can look for the nucleus and the membrane-bound organelles. If the cell has a nucleus and membrane-bound organelles, it is a eukaryotic cell. The absence of these structures makes it a prokaryotic cell.

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