While Examining a Hot Spring, You Find Something You Havenʹt

question 12

Multiple Choice

While examining a hot spring, you find something you havenʹt seen before. It has a cell membrane, but the cell wall lacks peptidoglycan. It contains both DNA and RNA. The DNA is circular. It would be classified as a(n)

• A) archaea.
• B) bacterium.
• C) prion.
• D) virus.
• E) fungus.

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Incentives

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