The sciatic nerve is a sensory motor nerve with two divisions that innervate the muscles behind and below the knee. These divisions are the tibial and peroneal nerves. The sciatic nerve is a sensory nerve that originates from the 7th lumbar vertebrae and sacrum of a dogâs spinal cord.
1 Because prokaryotic DNA can interact with the cytoplasm, transcription and translation occur simultaneously. 2  Most prokaryotes contain only one copy of each gene (i.e., they are haploid). 3  Nonessential prokaryotic genes are commonly encoded on extrachromosomal plasmids.
As in eukaryotic cells, the prokaryotic chromosome is intimately associated with special proteins involved in maintaining the chromosomal structure and regulating gene expression. In addition to a single large piece of chromosomal DNA, many prokaryotic cells also contain small pieces of DNA called plasmids.