Option A is incorrect; viruses, not bacteria, are often described as being on the borderline of living and non-living due to their inability to reproduce outside a host cell. Options B and C are incorrect; bacteria are fundamentally different from plants and animals (multicellular eukaryotes) and from flowering/non-flowering plants.
Which of the following statements about Bacteria is correct :
Asked in UPPCS Prelims 1995 · Topic: Miscellaneous (Important Biological Terms and Discoveries)
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