Which Statement About Archaea Is False

question 250

Multiple Choice

Which statement about archaea is false?

• A) Archaea is the division that gave rise to the prokaryotic ancestor of eukaryotes.
• B) In the first archaeal genome that was sequenced, half of the genes did not occur in either bacteria or eukaryotes.
• C) As in bacteria, peptidoglycan occurs in the cell walls of archaea.
• D) The unusual lipids in the membranes of archaea are found in all archaea and in no bacteria or eukaryotes.
• E) Archaea was first separated from Bacteria and Eukarya by analysis of rRNA genes.

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