A scientist brings you a sample that is supposedly a new species of Archaea. You examine it carefully and find that it has circular DNA, lacks organelles, is gram positive, has simple flagella and divides by binary fission. After examining the evidence, you should:

It can be placed in the bacterial group.

Explanation:

We should place it in the bacterial group because features such circular DNA, lacks organelles, gram positive, has simple flagella and used binary fission method for reproduction are present in bacterial group. Bacteria is a unicellular organism which has prokaryotic cell i. e. lack of nuclear membrane around the nucleus and other organelles such as mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum, golgi bodies and ribosomes etc.

a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and is held to determine some characteristic of the offspring.