Bacteria and Archaea can be differentiated from one another by the

A. size of individual cells.
B. chemical makeup of the cell wall.
C. presence of a novel nucleic acid in the Archaea
D. presence or absence of membranous organelles.
E. All of these can be used to differentiate the two domains.


Answer: B

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