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You are staining a Gram-positive bacterium and forgot the decolorization step (but continued with the rest of the procedure). What result do you expect at the end of the Gram stain?

The flagellar arrangement seen below is when a single flagellum or bunches of flagella found at both ends or poles of the bacterial cell.    

You discover a new bacterium in a pond. You stain the new bacterium and observe pink rod bacteria. What can you conclude from this?

You discover a new bacterium and it needs to be classified. How would you go about doing this?

These filaments are used by fungi to anchor to surfaces and to digest and absorb nutrients.

Yeasts are members of this kingdom.

In general, fungi derive nutrients through _______.

During fungal sexual reproduction, the cytoplasm of hyphae with different mating types will fuse during this process.

It is believed that some eukaryotic organelles originate from prokaryotes. What is some evidence of this?

This structure is used to classify bacteria into groups.