The characteristics of Eubacteria are:
- They are unicellular, prokaryotic microscopic cells
- Their cell membrane contain lipids made up of glycerol-ester lipids
- The cell wall is made up of Peptidoglycan (Murein)
- Chromosome is circular and nucleosomes maybe present
- Genetic exchange takes place through unidirectional or bidirectional DNA transfer
- Ribosomes are of 70S type made up of two subunits i.e; 50S-Larger subunit and 30S-Smaller subunit
- Coupled transcription and translation takes place
- They can be grouped under two categories: Gram positive bacteria and Gram negative bacteria depending on the nature of the cell wall and the stain which they take up during Gram’s staining.
