BIOL 1202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Antimicrobial Resistance, Bacterial Conjugation, Chemosynthesis
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27. 1 structural and functional adaptations contribute to prokaryotic success (cid:1) eukaryotes is the presence of ______. One thing that e. coli and other bacteria have in common with. The three most common are spheres (cocci), rods (bacilli), and spirals (spirilli). Figure 27. 2 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Cell wall: maintains cell shape, provides physical protection, prevents cell from bursting in a hypotonic environment, composed of peptidoglycan in bacteria, may also have an outer phospholipid membrane, figure 27. 3. A capsule (a sticky layer of polysaccharide or protein) may cover the. Fimbriae and pilli allows prokaryotes to stick to their substrate or cell wall of many prokaryotes. other individuals in a colony. (cid:1) (cid:1) cells and their cell walls are _____ complex structurally. Less; more (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Motile bacteria move by means of flagellae: structurally different from eukaryotic flagella.
