Use the Information in the Following Paragraph to Answer the Question

question 17

Multiple Choice

Use the information in the following paragraph to answer the question.
A hypothetical bacterium swims among human intestinal contents until it finds a suitable location on the intestinal lining. It adheres to the intestinal lining using a feature that also protects it from phagocytes, bacteriophages, and dehydration. Fecal matter from a human in whose intestine this bacterium lives can spread the bacterium, even after being mixed with water and boiled. The bacterium is not susceptible to the penicillin family of antibiotics. It contains no plasmids and relatively little peptidoglycan.
In which feature should one be able to locate a complete chromosome of this bacterium?

• A) mitochondrion
• B) nucleoid
• C) nucleus
• D) plasmid

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