SOCL 2002 Chapter : Chapter 19
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Bacteria and archaea: they have been around for about 3. 5 billion years. They have seen all of the global problems that have happened on earth. They lived and evolved through it: the main difference between the bacteria and the archaea is the type of semi-rigid permeable cell wall. Cell wall: peptidoglycan makes up the cell wall: cell wall give the cell the shape: most common, coccus (spherical, bacillus (rod shapped, spirillum(cork screw) These are ways that prokaryotes can be characterized.
