The presence of branched membrane lipids with ether linkages is a characteristic of ____

a. Archaea only
b. Bacteria only
c. both Archaea and Bacteria
d. of neither Archaea nor Bacteria
e. Archaea, Bacteria and Eukarya


ANSWER: a

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