3. Their cell wall almost always contain the complex polysaccharide peptidoglycan The prokaryotic cell 1. Their genetic material (DNA) is not enclosed within a membrane and they lack other membrane – bounded organelles 2. Their DNA is not associated with histidine 4. They are very small!!3. Their cell wall almost always contain the complex polysaccharide peptidoglycan The prokaryotic cell 1. Their genetic material (DNA) is not enclosed within a membrane and they lack other membrane – bounded organelles 2. Their DNA is not associated with histidine 4. They are very small!!