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Prokaryotic cells will also have something called plasmids, which is an additional piece of DNA that could have some sort of special power or feature. So a lot of times in bacteria, unfortunately for humans, we will see something like an antibiotic-resistant plasmid that will be able to make that bacteria grow in the presence of one of our antibiotics that we want to exterminate it with, but it won't exterminate it. Eukaryotic cells typically don't have plasmids because they have so much other machinery and don't necessarily need all of it.

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