Question

write characteristic of Kingdom Monera?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Kingdom Monera- Includes microscopic, unicellular or single celled organisms with a cell wall, but no nucleus. They have poorly developed nucleoid which contains the genetic material. For example- bacteria

Answer 2

Characteristics of Monera:

• They are unicellular and prokaryotic organisms.

• They are devoid of nuclear membrane,nucleolus, chromatin and histone properties.

• The genetic material is present in cytoplasm and is called Nucleoid.

• Cell wall is made up of Peptidoglycan (Amino acids + sugar).

• It doesn't have any membrane bound cell organelles.

• It only has Ribosomes as a cell organelle, which is of 70S type (50S large sub unit & 30S small sub unit).

• They exhibit both Autotrophic and Heterotrophic nutrition (Mostly heterotrophic).

• They perform Asexual reproduction.

• They commonly reproduce by Binary fission (Asexual reproduction).

• Respiratory enzyme is associated with mesosome which is attached with plasma membrane.

• They are two types of monerans i.e Archaebacteria and Eubacteria.

Examples of Monera:

Cyanobacteria, Mycoplasma, Blue green algae, Methanococcus. etc.