Identifying Archaea

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GRE Subject Test: Biology › Identifying Archaea

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Which of these choices is not a characteristic present in archaea?

Cell walls are made of peptidoglycan

70S ribosome

Glycerol diethers in lipid bilayers

S-layer

Chromosomes and plasmids are circular

Explanation

Only bacterial have peptidoglycan cell walls. The other traits are typical of at least some known archaea. The s-layer involves crystalline arrays of proteinaceous subunits, which are common to some archaea and bacteria.

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