GRE Subject Test: Biology › Identifying Archaea
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
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.