How do eukaryotic and prokaryotic chromosomes differ?

Question

How do eukaryotic and prokaryotic chromosomes differ?

Answer 1

Except in the mitochondria and other organelles, eukaryotic chromosomes are linear where as prokaryotic chromosomes are circular.

Eukaryotes typically have many chromosomes, whereas prokaryotes have only a single chromosome.

Eukaryotic chromosomal DNA in the nucleus is wound on nucleosome cores whereas prokaryotic DNA is “naked”—i.e., there are no nucleosomes or other proteins on which the DNA is wound.

Most eukaryotic cells are diploid, receiving a set of chromosomes from each parent. Thus their chromosomes occur in homologous pairs, each consisting of one chromosome from each parent bearing basically the same genes in the same order. Prokaryotes are haploid; their single circular chromosome is unpaired.

Answer 2

its really simple.  Prokaryotic cells have no nuclei, while eukaryotic cells do have true nuclei.