Question

You have discovered a new microorganism and would like to classify it as a eukaryote or a prokaryote. To investigate this question you prepare a slide with a simple stain and view it with a light microscope with a 40X objective lens and 10X ocular lens. You also prepare a control slide using Saccharomyces cerevisiae (a unicellular eukaryote). You can see the cells on your control slide, but you don't see cells when you look at your unknown microorganism. What can you conclude from this experiment?

Answer 1

the unknown microorganism is a PROKARYOTE.

Step-by-step explanation:

if it were a eukaryote then similar type of cells would be seen under light microscope as those seen in case of unicellular eukaryote i.e Saccharomyces cerevisiae . but as the unknown microorganism does not have those cells then we can easily classify it to be a PROKARYOTE.