A Bacterium Has the Following Characteristics

question 51

Multiple Choice

A bacterium has the following characteristics:
∙ It adheres to the human intestinal lining using a feature that protects it from phagocytes, bacteriophages, and dehydration.
∙ It can survive being boiled.
∙ It contains no plasmids and relatively little peptidoglycan.
Which of the following characteristics allows this bacterium to survive in a human who is taking penicillin pills?

• A) gram-negative cell wall
• B) peptidoglycan in the cell wall
• C) lipopolysaccharides in the cytoplasm
• D) long polypeptides in the cell wall

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