Question

Describe the ecosystem in which mycoplasmas lives.

Describe how mycoplasmas obtains and then metabolizes food.

Describe symptoms of a human with an infection of mycoplasmas

Describe organisms that are similar to mycoplasmas

Answer 1

Mycoplasmas are the parasitic bacteria which lives inside the host.for example mycoplasmas pneumonia which causes lives in the mucosal membrane of the respiratory tract. Which is obtained from gram positive bacteria.They lack cell wall and belongs to class mollicutes.

Mycoplasmas enters through the cough,sneeze and through sexual transmission.they donot metabolize amino acids,lipids and carbohydrates by there own depends upon host for metabolising.

Symptoms are fever,drycough,headache,sore throat,chest pain in mycoplama pneumonia and itching and buring while urination infection by mycoplama genetalium.spiroplasmas and ricketsia are some of the mycoplasmas like organism