coccus
coccus
A coccus bacterium is typically spherical in shape. It can also occur in the form of ovoid or elongated shapes depending on the species.
spherical,rod shaped, or swurly
An individual spherical bacterium is a coccus, and when you have a chain of them, it is referred to as streptococcus.
The term that refers to the shape of a bacterium is "morphology." Bacteria can have various shapes such as cocci (spherical), bacilli (rod-shaped), spirilla (spiral-shaped), or vibrio (curved rod-shaped). The shape of a bacterium can provide clues about its characteristics and behavior.
The suffix "-coccus" means a spherical bacterium. In biological terminology, it is used to indicate that the organism is spherical in shape.
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The most spherical object in the universe is believed to be the star Kepler 11145123, which is nearly perfect in its spherical shape.
The genetic information of a bacterium is found in a DNA loop of the cytoplasm. Bacterium is a single-celled organism, and it is classified according to its shape, such as spherical or spiral.
Nearly spherical, with some polar flattening for the large gas giants which spin quickly.
Enterococcus faecalis is a gram-positive bacterium, meaning it retains the crystal violet stain in the Gram stain procedure. It is a coccus (spherical) bacterium, not a coccobacillus which is an ovoid or short rod-shaped bacterium.
The scientific term cocci is used to denote any spherical or nearly spherical shaped bacteria. The plural of cocci is coccus.