Question

what are salient features of Monera?​

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Monera kingdom includes prokaryotic organisms.

2. organisms of Monera do not contain membrane bound organelles.

3. organisms of Monera lack nuclear envelope & DNA without histone such DNA known as Nucleoid or Genome.

4. organisms of Monera may be autotrophic or heterotrophic but most of the members are heterotrophic.

5.they may divided into three parts on the basis of heterotrophic mode of nutrition:

- Parasitic: those organism which fed on other living organism.

- saprophytic: those organism which fed on dead or decaying organic matter by decomposing it.

- symbiotic: those organism show mutualism with other living organism. for eg: Rhizobium : it shows mutualism with leguminous plants; rhizobium fixes nitrogen for plants & in return rhizobium gets carbohydrate & shade from the plant.

6. organisms of Monera do not contain chlorophyll.

7. kingdom Monera includes Bacteria, virus, Mycoplamsa etc.

8. Mycoplamsa which is the samllest living cell without cellwall is also the part of Kingdom Monera.

Answer 2

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• does not have well defined nucleus in the cell
• shows asexual mode of reproduction.
• size of their micro-organisms is small.

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