Talk:A-level Biology/Biology Foundation/cell structure

Thank you for the correction of my shocking aerobic/anaerobic respiration error in mitochondrion! --Greenie (talk) 10:59, 4 June 2008 (UTC)

Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes
I don't think it is correct to say that prokaryotes are "now referred to as bacteria".

Both bacteria and archaea have prokaryotic cells. Since archaea are more closely related to eukaryotes than to bacteria, this means that the prokaryotes are not a monophyletic group of organisms. 'Prokaryote' is a descriptive term referring to a certain type of cell (small, no membrane-bound organelles) and not an actual family of organisms.