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Characteristics And Classification Of Monera MCQ - Practice Questions with Answers

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  • Characteristics of kingdom Monera is considered one the most difficult concept.

  • 21 Questions around this concept.

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Characteristics of kingdom Monera
  • Kingdom Monera includes most abundant organisms that are found in a variety of habitats.
  • They are unicellular and prokaryotic organisms.
  • They lack a true nucleus bounded by a nuclear membrane and nucleolus instead they have naked circular DNA folded to form nucleoid. 
  • Monerans possess naked DNA and RNA not associated with proteins
  • The cell wall is made up of peptidoglycan  
  • Membrane-bound cell organelles like mitochondria, Golgi complex, endoplasmic reticulum etc are absent in monerans
  • Ribosome of 70 S type is present in these organisms.
  • Reproduction in these organisms mainly occurs by asexual means i.e. binary fission, endospore production etc.
  • Monerans can be autotrophic, saprotrophic, parasitic and chemoautotrophic.
  • Major groups of Monera 

 
Members of kingdom Monera are of following types:
1. Eubacteria- true bacteria
2. Archaebacteria- ancient bacteria
3. Cyanobacteria- Prokaryotic, blue-green algae
4. Mycoplasma - wall-less monerans
 

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