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BIOS 135 Exam 2
1. What is the singular form of coccus?:
Answer -cocci
2. What is the singular form of bacillus?:
Answer -bacilli
3. What is the singular form of spirochetes?:
Answer -Spirochete
4. What is the singular form of spirillum?:
Answer -spirilla
5. What is clusters?:
Answer -cells that are clumping in an irregular fashion; forming grape-like clusters
6. What is chains?:
Answer -form a chain, end to end ex: cocci and
rods can form chains
7. What is tetrads?:
Answer -cells that tend to form groups of four -bacillus cannot form tetrads
8. Describe characteristics and give an example of an Archaea:
Answer extreme methanogens, halophiles, thermophiles.: Extreme mathanogen: euryarchaeota; important source of methane
- Describe characteristics and give an example of a Gram-Negative Bacteria
Answer Aerobic/Microaerophilic: Helical &Vibrion.
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