Want this question answered?
diplococcus,streptococcus,gonococcus
An individual spherical bacterium is a coccus, and when you have a chain of them, it is referred to as streptococcus.
It is a string (strepto-) of very small ball-like (-coccus) bacteria.
Spherically shaped bacteria are called coccus, or cocci (pl). An example would be Streptococcus.
The kingdom that streptococcus belongs to is Bacteria. Streptococcus is also a member of the phylum Firmicutes and is gram positive.
Streptococcus got its name from the Greek words "strep" meaning twisted and "coccus" meaning berry, which describes its characteristic chain-like arrangement of round bacterial cells.
ALL bacteria are prokaryotic. It means that they do not have a nucleus.
What exactly do you mean by "what kind"? It is classified by microbiologists as a gram-positive coccus.
Strepto is arranged in long chains and Coccus looks like spheres so it is a long chain of spheres.
All species of genus Streptococcus (family Streptococcaceae, order Lactobacillales, class Bacilli, phylum Firmicutes, kingdom Bacteria) are, as the name suggests, cocci. That is to say: round shaped.They are also generally found in chains rather than individuals.They are gram positive and there are several hemolytic strains (although there are some non-hemolytic streptococci.)
Streptococcus, the bacteria that causes strep throat, is spherical (cocci) in shape.
Coccus or cocci