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What distinguishes bacteria from archaea

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Archaean cell walls are made up of different compounds than are bacterial cell walls.

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1. Cell walls: virtually all bacteria contain peptidoglycan in their cell walls; however, archaea and eukaryotes lack peptidoglycan. Various types of cell walls exist in the archaea. Therefore, the absence or presence of peptidoglycan is a distinguishing feature between the archaea and bacteria

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