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Describe bacterial morphology, oxygen and temperature requirements of Escherichia coli

  1. Describe bacterial morphology, oxygen and temperature requirements of Escherichia coli
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Bacterial morphology

E coli is a gram negative rod shaped bacterium commonly found in gut of human beings. It is having a membrane less region called nucleoid which contains the DNA. Membrane bound organelles like mitochondria, chloroplast, golgi, ER are all absent. It is a heterotrophic bacteria which obtain nutrition mainly from a living host, but mainly lives in symbiotic relationship with the host. It has 70S type ribosomes. It is peritrichous, flagella is present all over the cell surface.

Oxygen and temperature requirements

The bacterium lives at normal temperature and pH conditions. The temperature is around 37℃ which is the temperature of a healthy human body. It is an aerobic bacteria which undertakes celluar respiration in the presence of oxygen. It is a mesophytic bacterium.

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