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What is the term for a spherical bacterium, often described as circular?

What is the term for rod-shaped bacteria?

What is the term for coil or spiral-shaped bacteria?

What is the term for spiral-shaped bacteria?

What is the term for bacteria that are tapering at both ends and spindle-shaped?

What is the term for bacteria that are arranged in pairs?

What is the term for bacteria that form chains?

What is the term for bacteria that form clusters?

What is the term for a curved rod-shaped bacterium?

What type of bacteria has a thick layer of peptidoglycan and no outer membrane, making it susceptible to cell wall disruption?

What type of bacteria has a pair of membranes, a thin layer of peptidoglycan, and is resistant to cell wall disruption?

What are the steps involved in the Gram stain procedure?

What is the structure composed of rigid glycan chains cross-linked by flexible peptide bridges, containing NAG and NAM?

What molecule makes up the outer layer of the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria?

What are highly resistant structures formed by certain Gram-positive rods when nutrients are limited?

What are the key processes involved in bacterial metabolism?

What are the degradative reactions of bacteria that break down proteins, polysaccharides, and lipids?

What are the fermentation products of glycolysis in bacteria?

What is the term for organisms that use oxygen for respiration and cannot ferment?

What is the term for organisms that live without oxygen and are killed by it, fermenting in its absence?

What is the term for bacteria that can grow with or without oxygen, respiring with O2 and fermenting in its absence?

What is the term for bacteria that need oxygen to proliferate but at low levels, growing best at low O2 concentrations?

What are the stages of bacterial growth?

What are the types of membrane transport in bacteria?

What is the movement of specific molecules across cell membranes through protein channels called?

What is the energy-requiring process that moves material across a cell membrane against a concentration difference?

What are the types of secretion systems in Gram-negative bacteria?

What type of mutation involves the insertion or deletion of a nucleotide in the DNA sequence of the wild type?

What are segments of DNA that can move from one region of DNA to another called?

What are viruses that infect bacteria known as?

What is the process in which one strain of bacteria is changed by a gene or genes from another strain, involving plasmid DNA transfer?

What is the transfer of genetic material via bacteriophage called?

What is the process of plasmid transfer and acquisition of survival genes through a sex pilus known as?

What is the movement of DNA elements within the cell, which can be a virulence island, called?

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