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Chapter 26, Problem 13TYK
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The designing of an experiment that checks whether a sample of an unidentified prokaryote is a bacterium or an Archaean.
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Prokaryotes are small unicellular organisms in which membrane bound organelles are not present. Archaea and bacteria are two domains of prokaryotes that differ from each other in some characteristics such as cell wall composition and histone protein.
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