You are observing a cell. its cell wall is made of a long-chain polysaccharide called peptidoglycan. it has the ability to make all but the simplest molecules and can make all of the 20 amino acids. what kind of cell is it? if the cell contained pigments capable of photosynthesis, what would it be called?

Answer

            The organism should be name as bacteria.  

Explanation

                   Peptidoglycans is the characteristics features of bacterial cell its absent in cell wall of archaea, fungi and plant cell.  Bacteria can also make amino acids. There are some bacteria who can prepare their own food in the presence of sunlight, i.e purple phototrophic bacteria, green sulphur bacteria, green filamentous bacteria etc. these bacteria contain photosythertic pigments called bacteriochlorophyll.  

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