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Which of the following is a major difference between archaea and bacteria?
Which of the following is a major difference between archaea and bacteria?
- Bacteria can thrive in extreme environmental conditions while archaea cannot
- Archaea have membrane-bound organelles while bacteria do not
- Archaea use sunlight as a source of energy while bacteria use inorganic compounds (correct)
- Bacteria are eukaryotic while archaea are prokaryotic
Which of the following is a feature of bacterial cells?
Which of the following is a feature of bacterial cells?
- They have a nucleus
- They may consist of a third protective outer layer called a capsule (correct)
- They have an outer cell membrane and an inner cell wall
- They consist of plasmids which are linear pieces of extra-chromosomal DNA
Which of the following is a type of chemotroph archaea?
Which of the following is a type of chemotroph archaea?
- Thermophiles
- Oxygenic photosynthesizers
- Anaerobic methane oxidizers (correct)
- Halophiles
