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What is the medical term for chronic infection with spirochete bacterium?
what is the sexually transmitted disease called with chronic infection with a spirochete bacterium
What is a corkscrew shaped bacterium called?
Corkscrew bacteria are called Spirochetes. They are all gram negative, motile, and can be aquatic bacteria or animal parasites. For example: Borrelia burgdorferi, the bacteria that causes Lyme disease is a spirochete.
How do you use causative agent in a sentence?
The causative agent of syphilis is the bacterial spirochete called Treponema pallidum.
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 is it called when a bacterium uses a virus to transfer its DNA another bacterium?
Transduction
What is a cork screw shaped bacteria called?
Spirochete
What disease is caused by a bacterium called Legionella pneumophila which attacks the white blood cells that usually attack infections?
Legionnaires' disease
What is the small DNA segment in bacterium called?
The small DNA segment found in bacteria is called a plasmid. Plasmids are circular extrachromosomal DNA molecules that can replicate independently of the bacterial chromosome. They often carry genes that provide bacteria with advantages such as antibiotic resistance.
The act of two bacteria joining and exchanging DNA?
The act of two bacteria joining and exchanging DNA is called bacterial conjugation. During conjugation, a donor bacterium transfers genetic material to a recipient bacterium through a structure called a pilus. This process allows for the exchange of beneficial traits such as antibiotic resistance.
What protein is the filament in a bacterial flagellum made of?
The filament in a bacterial flagellum is made of a protein called flagellin. Flagellin forms the helical structure of the flagellum filament, providing the bacterium with motility.
When one bacterium split in the middle to form two bacteria what is it?
This process is called binary fission. Binary fission is a form of asexual reproduction in which a single bacterium divides into two identical daughter cells. It is the most common method of bacterial reproduction.
What is a virus called that invades bacteria?
A virus that infects bacteria is called a bacteriophage. Bacteriophages are specific to infecting bacterial cells and can inject their genetic material into the host bacterium, leading to replication and eventual destruction of the bacterial cell.
