What are the two types of bacteria?

0 votes
asked Jul 5, 2022 in Diseases Conditions by Loutink (2,830 points)
What are the two types of bacteria?

1 Answer

0 votes
answered Jul 11, 2022 by Kledolock (6,980 points)
The two types of bacteria are eubacteria and archaea bacteria.

Bacteria are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell.

They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms.

Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among the first life forms to appear on Earth, and are present in most of its habitats.

Three characteristics of Eubacteria are as follows:

Peptidoglycans form the stiff cell wall in Eubacteria.
Flagella are used to help it to move.
A few bacteria have pili, which are small appendages on the surface of the cell that helps or assist the bacteria in sexual reproduction.

Based on the structure of the cell wall, bacteria are classified into Gram-positive bacteria and Gram-negative bacteria.

Eubacteria are prokaryotic microorganisms consisting of a single cell lacking a nucleus and containing DNA is a single circular chromosome.

Eubacteria can be either gram-negative or gram-positive, they have economic, agricultural, and medical importance.

They include E. coli, Lactobacilli, and Azospirillum.

Examples of Eubacteria

Escherichia Coli.
If you've ever gotten flu-like symptoms from the lettuce on a ham sandwich or an undercooked burger, then you've met Escherichia coli, better known by its street name E.
Cyanobacteria.
Borrelia Burgdorferi.
Chlamydia Trachomatis.

Eubacteria in the human guts play important role in digestion of food and synthesis of vitamin K.

They also protect human body from harmful bacteria.

Some Eubacteria can induce serious diseases such as tuberculosis, meningitis, anthrax, leprosy, cholera and tetanus.

Staphylococcus Aureus.

Eubacterium, plural eubacteria, also called bacteria, term formerly used to describe and differentiate any of a group of prokaryotic true bacteria from the archaebacteria.

Today, true bacteria form the domain Bacteria.

108,713 questions

117,630 answers

1,356 comments

7,058,495 users

...