(III) Bacterial cell structure

(Unit III ) Bacterial cell structure: • Ultrastructure of Bacteria- 1.Cell wall (Gram Positive and Gram negative), 2.Cell Membrane, 3.Capsule, 4.Flagella, 5.Pili, 6.slime layer, 7.Ribosome, 8. Nucleoid, 9.Mesosomes, 10.Endospore, 11.Cell inclusions (Gas vesicles, carboxysomes,magnetosomes, PHB granules, Glycogen bodies, metachromatic granules) Ultrastructure of Bacteria- 1. Cell wall (Gram Positive and Gram negative) Cell Wall: Just outside the plasma membrane, a complex semi-rigid structure that determines the shapes of bacteria is called a cell wall. The cell wall is an essential structure, as most bacteria cannot live without it. Exceptionally Mycoplasma species and several archaea do not have cell wall. Although presence of cell wall is an unique characteristics of bacteria. two kinds of cell walls are detected in bacteria -Gram-positive and Gram-negative . These categories are based on differential...