Which Statement About Archaea Is False

Multiple Choice

Which statement about archaea is false?

A) Archaea is the division that gave rise to the prokaryotic ancestor of eukaryotes.
B) In the first archaeal genome that was sequenced, half of the genes did not occur in either bacteria or eukaryotes.
C) As in bacteria, peptidoglycan occurs in the cell walls of archaea.
D) The unusual lipids in the membranes of archaea are found in all archaea and in no bacteria or eukaryotes.
E) Archaea was first separated from Bacteria and Eukarya by analysis of rRNA genes.