Multiple Choice
Please use the following information to answer the question(s) below.
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 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.
-This bacterium's ability to survive in a human who is taking penicillin pills may be due to the presence of which of the following?
1) penicillin-resistance genes
2) a gram-positive cell wall
3) a gram-negative cell wall
4) an endospore
A) 1 or 4
B) 1 or 3
C) 2 or 4
D) 3 or 4
Correct Answer:

Verified
Correct Answer:
Verified
Q34: If all prokaryotes on Earth suddenly vanished,
Q68: Which statement about the domain archaea is
Q69: Suppose bacteria are grown on a petri
Q70: Mycoplasmas are bacteria with the rare structural
Q71: Thiobacillus ferrooxidans is a type of bacteria
Q73: The first genes on Earth were probably<br>A)DNA
Q74: The structure of a prokaryotic ribosome is
Q75: The table depicts characteristics of five prokaryotic
Q76: Figure 24.2 depicts changes to the amount
Q77: The cell also lacks F factors and