Transcription of GENERAL BACTERIOLOGY 1.
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GENERAL BACTERIOLOGY 1. Bacterial cell (morphology, staining reactions, classification of bacteria) The protoplast is bounded peripherally has a very thin, elastic and semi-permeable cytoplasmic membrane (a conventional phospholipid bilayer). Outside, and closely covering this, lies the rigid, supporting cell wall, which is porous and relatively permeable. The structures associated with the cell wall and the cytoplasmic membrane (collectively the cell envelope) combine to produce the cell morphology and characteristic patterns of cell arrangement. Bacterial cells may have two basic shapes: spherical (coccus) or rod-shaped (bacillus); the rod-shaped bacteria show variants that are common-shaped (vibrio), spiral (spirillium and spirochetes) or filamentous.
penicillin, acids, iodine, basic dyes, detergents and lysozyme, and less susceptible to alkalis, azide, tellurite, proteolytic enzymes, lysis by antibody and complement, and plasmolysis in solutes of high osmotic pressure. The probable mechanism of the Gram stain is attributed to differences in the permeability of the two essential cell wall types.
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