Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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The advantages of adaptive alternating morphology of stalk and flagellum in the aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus.
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Bacterium or bacteria are prokaryotic cells lacking a membrane-bound nucleus and cell organelles. These are the microscopic organisms having a circular DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid). The flagellum is the mobile unit of a bacterium. The stalk is the extension of bacterial cells that helps in anchoring the bacteria to a substratum.
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