If the Bacterial Cells Were Viewed Immediately After Crystal Violet

question 50

True/False

If the bacterial cells were viewed immediately after crystal violet was applied during the Gram stain procedure, gram-positive cells would be purple but gram-negative cells would be colorless.

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Definitions:

Linnaean Categories

Hierarchical levels of classification in biology developed by Carl Linnaeus, including kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.

Hierarchical

Describing a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.

Domain

(1) A structural and functional region of a protein. (2) The broadest taxonomic category; each domain includes one or more kingdoms.

Paraphyletic Group

A group of organisms that includes an ancestral species and some, but not all, of its descendants.