Bacteria

wolf on January 13th, 2012

If a colony of bacteria is infected with bacteriophages, the bacteria undergo chance collision and ultimately the phages attach to the bacterial cell wall through tail fibres. The DNA of the phage is injected into the host cell by dissolving the cell wall at the point of attachment, and the protein shell remains outside. The [...]

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wolf on September 13th, 2010

Bacteria Vs. Virus differences (Bacteria characters “Normal” and Virus characters “Bold” for easy understanding) 1. Unicellular 1. Acellular 2. Composed of cell wall. 2. Without cell wall and sometimes envelop may be present. 3. Sometimes bacteriochlorophyll, prokaryotic nucleus present. 3. Composed of any two components- nuclei acid core and protein sheath, Non-nucleated. 4. Cytoplasm present. [...]

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wolf on September 9th, 2010

Bacteria Vs Virus: 1. Unicellular 1. Acellular 2. Composed of cell wall 2. Without cell wall sometimes envelope may be presnet. 3. Sometimes bacteriochlorophyll, prokaryotic nucleus (incipient nucleus nucleoid) present 3. Composed of any two components – nucleic acid core and protein sheath, non-nucleated. 4. Cytoplasm present 4. Cytoplasm absent 5. Genetical material both DNA [...]

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wolf on September 8th, 2010

Bacteria may be classified according to the presence and absence of flagella as follow with examples- (a) Monotrichous- Presence of one flagellum at one pole, eg. Vibrio. (b) Lophotrichous- Presence of tuft of flagella at one pol, eg. Pseudomonas. (c) Amphitrichous- Presence of tufts of flagella at both ends, eg. Spirillum. (d) Peritrichous- Presence of [...]

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wolf on September 8th, 2010

Bacteria may be classified according to the shapes are as following: (a) Bacillus (rod shaped) (b) Spirillum (spiral or cork screw shaped) (c) Coccus ( (spherical or oval shaped) (d) Vibrio or Comma (comma shaped)

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