In the Three-Domain System of Classification

question 23

Multiple Choice

In the three-domain system of classification

• A) eukaryotes are more similar to the prokaryotes now classified in domain Bacteria than to those now classified in domain Archaea.
• B) animals and plants are less similar to each other than to the prokaryotes now classified in domain Archaea.
• C) prokaryotes are classified into two domains, with the organisms in domain Archaea more similar to eukaryotes than to the prokaryotes in domain Bacteria.
• D) cladistics alone are used to formulate the new phylogenetic tree of life.
• E) by the principle of parsimony, it requires fewer assumptions to divide the prokaryotes into two domains than it does to put them in a single domain.

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