LIFE SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The presence of a nucleus is the principal feature that distinguishes eukaryotic from prokaryotic cells. By housing the cell’s genome, the nucleus serves both as the repository of genetic information and as the cell’s control center.

Detailed explanation-2: -We now know that the DNA carries the hereditary information of the cell (Figure 4-2). In contrast, the protein components of chromosomes function largely to package and control the enormously long DNA molecules so that they fit inside cells and can easily be accessed by them.