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Four Components Every Cell Shares

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Every cell, prokaryotic or eukaryotic, shares a plasma membrane, cytoplasm, DNA, and ribosomes.

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A bacterium and a human skin cell differ enormously in complexity but both carry all four of these components.

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Sharing these four components is what makes something a cell at all — the prokaryote/eukaryote split concerns what else is added on top.