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Q: How do you determine whether a coccus is staphlyococcus or streptococcus?
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What is an example of a coccus?

diplococcus,streptococcus,gonococcus


A chain of spherical bacterial cells is called?

An individual spherical bacterium is a coccus, and when you have a chain of them, it is referred to as streptococcus.


What does streptococcus have?

It is a string (strepto-) of very small ball-like (-coccus) bacteria.


What are sphere shaped bacteria called?

Spherically shaped bacteria are called coccus, or cocci (pl). An example would be Streptococcus.


What kingdom does streptococcus belong?

The kingdom that streptococcus belongs to is Bacteria. Streptococcus is also a member of the phylum Firmicutes and is gram positive.


How did streptococcus get its name?

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.


Is streptococcus eukaryotic or prokaryotic?

ALL bacteria are prokaryotic. It means that they do not have a nucleus.


What is one type of bacteria?

What exactly do you mean by "what kind"? It is classified by microbiologists as a gram-positive coccus.


The name streptococcus tells you that the bacteria are arranged as what?

Strepto is arranged in long chains and Coccus looks like spheres so it is a long chain of spheres.


What shape does bacteria have in the streptobacillus?

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.)


What shape is strep throat bacteria?

Streptococcus, the bacteria that causes strep throat, is spherical (cocci) in shape.


What are spherical shaped bacteria called?

Coccus or cocci