The bacterial cell wall has all of the following properties except______________?

Correct answer: C. It is a unique flexible plastic structure

  • A. It consists of a mixed polymer called peptidoglycon
  • B. It is the structure principally responsible for the reaction of gram staining
  • C. It is a unique flexible plastic structure
  • D. It contains D-isomers of amino acids

Explanation

The bacterial cell wall is a rigid peptidoglycan structure, not a flexible plastic structure. Peptidoglycan determines much of the Gram-staining reaction and contains D-amino acids, which protect it from many bacterial proteases.

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