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Laboratory Exercise #4Basic Cell CharacteristicsI. IntroductionThe cell is the basic unit of life. All organisms are composed of cells. Some organisms are made up of only one cell. These are referred to as unicellular organisms, such as bacteria and some protistans. Most organisms consist of many cells and these are referred to as multicellular organisms.There are two fundamentally different kinds of cells: prokaryotic cells and eukaryotic cells. Prokaryotes have a very simple structure. The prokaryotic cell tends to be smaller than eukaryotic cells. They lack a true membrane-bound nucl