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The two "types", or morphologies of prokaryotic cell walls are called Gram positive and Gram negative. They are called this because the staining reaction used to differentiate these two morphologies of prokaryotic cell walls is called a Gram stain.
The two cell wall morphologies are:

Gram positive bacteria have a cell membrane (plasma membrane) surrounded by a thick layer of peptidoglycan.

Gram negative bacteria have a cell membrane (plasma membrane) surrounded by a thin layer of peptidoglycan, and then this is all surrounded by a second, outer plasma membrane

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