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To: RightWhale
Check out this page from the MIT Biology Hypertextbook.

Prokaryotes have a cell wall composed of peptidoglycan, a single large polymer of amino acids and sugar. Many types of eukaryotic cells also have cell walls, but none made of peptidoglycan.

11 posted on 11/13/2001 9:06:06 AM PST by 911
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To: 911
That must be what they mean. Obviously a cell would have a boundary, and it might be called a wall no matter what the composition might be. Sagan's Origin of Life buddies were always trying to find a chemical process that would create that first cell boundary of the first cell.
13 posted on 11/13/2001 9:45:07 AM PST by RightWhale
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