The United Illuminating Company (UI) is a regional electric distribution company based in Orange, Connecticut.
Although generally not visible to the naked eye, organisms composed of prokaryotic cells still dominate the earth. Their collective mass is at least 10 times greater than the mass of all eukaryotes combined. Organisms composed of prokaryotic cells are classified into 2 main groups: archaea and bacteria. Archaea most closely resemble the first primitive cells on our planet.
Prokaryotic DNA is coiled up in a region of the cytoplasm called the nucleoid. Like eukaryotic cells, prokaryotic cells contain a plasma membrane, cell wall, and cytoplasm. Unlike eukaryotic cells, prokaryotic cells do not contain membrane-bound organelles.