do prokaryotes have chromosomes/chromatin?

[destroythemcat]

Do Prokaryotes have one chromosome? or is their circular dna not called a chromosome? In a question I read they asked whether Prokaryotes had chromatin and the answer was no, I was confused because I read somewhere else that Prokaryotes have one chromosome?

Can anyone help me out?

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[dudewheresmymd]

No prokaryotes do not have chromatin which is the condensed DNA of eukaryotes wrapped around nucleosome structures of histones. Prokaryotes have a single circular double stranded DNA that is not wrapped around histones and forms a structure called the nucleoid.

 

[destroythemcat]

So prokaryotes do not have a chromosome?

 

[Saxappeal1]

dudewheresmymd, I thought prokaryotes have circular chromosomes in the nucleoid?

 

[gettheleadout]

Thread closed. Subject matter questions belong in Q&A.