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  • Question
  • Peptidoglycan accounts for __________ of the dry weight of cell wall in many gram positive bacteria


  • Options
  • A. 50% or more
  • B. About 10%
  • C. 11%+ 0.22%
  • D. About 20%

  • Correct Answer
  • 50% or more 


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    • 1. Name the component of flagellum.

    • Options
    • A. Filament
    • B. Hook
    • C. Basal body
    • D. All of these
    • Discuss
    • 2. In which of the following, lipo-polysaccharide is a major constituent of outer membrane of the cellwall?

    • Options
    • A. Gram-positive bacteria
    • B. Gram-negative bacteria
    • C. Fungi
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss
    • 3. Which of the following may contain fimbriae?

    • Options
    • A. Gram-positive bacteria
    • B. Gram-negative bacteria
    • C. Both (a) and (b)
    • D. None of these
    • Discuss
    • 4. Teichoic acids are typically found in

    • Options
    • A. cell walls of gram positive bacteria
    • B. outer membranes of gram positive bacteria
    • C. cell walls of gram negative bacteria
    • D. outer membranes of gram negative bacteria
    • Discuss
    • 5. The common word for bacteria which are spherical in shape is

    • Options
    • A. cocci
    • B. bacilli
    • C. spirilla
    • D. pleomorphic
    • Discuss
    • 6. Bacteria having no flagella are unable to

    • Options
    • A. move
    • B. reproduce
    • C. stick to tissue surfaces
    • D. grow in nutrient agar
    • Discuss
    • 7. Which of the following organism has sterols in their cytoplasmic membrane?

    • Options
    • A. Clostridum
    • B. Proteus
    • C. Mycoplasma
    • D. Bacillius
    • Discuss
    • 8. Which of the following does not contain protein?

    • Options
    • A. Pili
    • B. Flagellum
    • C. Lipoteichoic acid
    • D. Porin
    • Discuss
    • 9. A cluster of polar flagella is called

    • Options
    • A. lophotrichous
    • B. amphitrichous
    • C. monotrichous
    • D. petritrichous
    • Discuss
    • 10. The next to last step in peptidoglycan biosynthesis is

    • Options
    • A. synthesis of the NAM-peptide subunit
    • B. removal of the subunit from bactoprenol
    • C. linking the sugar of the disaccharide-peptide unit to the growing peptidoglycan chain
    • D. cross-linking the peptide side chains of peptidoglycan
    • Discuss


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