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When examined by electron microscopy the isolated bacterial ribosomes at first approximation look like compact rounded particles with linear sizes of about 200 to 250 Å (Fig. 5.1), and somewhat larger, from 200 to 300 Å, in the case of eukaryotic ribosomes. Ribosomes from different organisms and cells, whether prokaryotic or eukaryotic, have a strikingly similar appearance.
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Vasiliev, V.D. (1999). Morphology of the Ribosome. In: Ribosomes. Cellular Organelles. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-7817-8_5
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