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Characteristics:

  • no membrane-covered nuclei and organelles
  • mostly unicellular
  • reproduce asexually by binary fissio
  • produce food through photosynthesis but use a wider variety of substances as raw materials than eukaryotes
  • tiny organisms
  • a cell wall, usually surrounded by a layer of slime, encloses the cell

    Classification according to shape:

    1.coccus-spherical

    2.bacillus-rodlike

    3.spirillus-spiral

    Functions of Monerans:

1. Sewage disposal

2. Production of cheese and vinegar

3. Used in tanning leather and curing meat

4. production of anibiotics like neomycin

5. Biological control of harmful insects

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