Multiple Choice
Use the information in the following paragraph to answer the next few questions.
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.
-Some of the proteins that allow this bacterium to swim are related (in an evolutionary sense) to proteins that
A) attach to the single chromosome.
B) act as restriction enzymes.
C) synthesize peptidoglycan for the cell wall.
D) move macromolecules out of the cell.
E) comprise its ribosomes.
Correct Answer:

Verified
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q14: A fish that has been salt-cured subsequently
Q18: The thermoacidophile, Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, lacks peptidoglycan, but
Q18: Consider the thermoacidophile Sulfolobus acidocaldarius. Which of
Q26: Approximately how far back in time does
Q41: Figure 27.2 depicts changes to the amount
Q42: Use the information in the following paragraph
Q44: The following table depicts characteristics of five
Q51: In general, what is the primary ecological
Q53: In a hypothetical situation, the genes for
Q58: The following table depicts characteristics of five