Question: 1) Which bacteria do you expect to be more resistant to chemicalagents, acid fast or non acid-fast bacteria? Why? 2) : In the Gram Stain,

1) Which bacteria do you expect to be more resistant to chemicalagents, acid fast or non acid-fast bacteria? Why?

2) : In the Gram Stain, the mordant used to fix the dye withinthe cells was Gram’s Iodine. What is the mordant in the case of theacid-fast stain? (Mordant= Fixative, stabilizer, maintains,preserves)

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