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    11 months ago

    they don’t have the organelles or nucleus

    What exactly they lose depends on the species, human red blood cells indeed discard organelles and the nucleus.

    But having organelles and a nucleus are not the formal definition of a cell. To begin with, any prokaryotes won’t have a nucleus, and organelles aren’t mandatory.