The main criteria for classification used by Whittaker included all the following, except:
1. Cell structure and body organization
2. Mode of nutrition
3. Mode of reproduction
4. Mode of locomotion
What would be true for both eubacteria and archaebacteria?
A: | Both are prokaryotes |
B: | Both have similar structure of cell wall |
1. Only A is correct
2. Only B is correct
3. Both A and B are correct
4. Both A and B are incorrect
I: | The cyanobacteria that are also referred to as blue green algae are not ‘algae’. |
II: | Yeast, although unicellular, are fungi. |
III: | Mycoplasma lack a cell wall but are bacteria. |
Identify the incorrect statement regarding true bacteria?
1. | As a group, they exhibit maximum metabolic diversity. |
2. | Chemosynthetic autotrophic bacteria play a great role in recycling nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous, iron and sulphur. |
3. | Heterotrophic bacteria are the most abundant in nature. |
4. | Bacteria reproduce mainly by fission but sometimes under favourable conditions, they produce spores. |