In the Three Domain System of Classification

question 21

Multiple Choice

In the three domain system of classification,

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

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