3a. How can the Gram stain be used to classify bacteria?  b) What causes one type of bacteria to stain differently from another?  c) At what step in the Gram-staining procedure does this difference arise?

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3a. How can the Gram stain be used to classify bacteria? 

  1. b) What causes one type of bacteria to stain differently from another? 

c) At what step in the Gram-staining procedure does this difference arise? 

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