If you wanted to try and identify or classify archaea or eubacteria, you would
a. study their habitat
b. study their genetic make-up
c. study their shape and arrangement
d. conduct gram staining
e. study how they gain energy and nutrients
f. study how they move

If you wanted to try and identify or classify archaea or eubacteria, you would study their habitat, study their genetic make-up, study their shape and arrangement, conduct Gram staining, study how they gain energy and nutrients and study how they move. Archaea and eubacteria are genetically different; Archaea have more complex RNA polymerases that contain multiple polypeptides while eubacteria have simple RNA polymerases that contain four polypeptides. Archaea cell walls do not contain peptidoglycan while almost all bacteria cell walls contain peptidoglycan.

"1. it should be, it has been for about 20 years, and it's really not much different in the end than breeding animals to have particular traits. there are always concerns about genetically engineered animals/plants affecting the environment in unexpected negative ways, but i can't think of an example where the fears didn't turn out to be baseless.  

first, as you point out, it would be a great advance in pharmacology, to be able to tailor drugs and their doses to me. the pros involve better medical treatment. the cons involve privacy issues like insurance companies denying coverage to people with genetic risk factors. looking at dna markers wouldn't affect the frequency of genetic diseases, but it would allow detection of them earlier. and ok, actually i suppose that if people used this information to avoid having children with genetic diseases, some might decrease in frequency."