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.
Unlike eukaryotic cells, prokaryotic cells do not have a cell nucleus or any membrane-bound organelles such as mitochondria. Therefore neither the DNA of prokaryotic cells nor any of the sites of metabolic activity within a prokaryotic cell are enclosed by a separate membrane.