Microbial Physiology
Microbial physiology is the branch of microbiology that is associated with studying the physiology of fungi, bacteria, and viruses. It is an important field of science concerning functional genomics and metabolic engineering.
Chemotaxis
The organism’s movement in a particular direction as a response to certain chemicals that are available in the environment is defined as chemotaxis. In brief, it can be defined as the occurrence of an organism’s movement in response to a certain chemical stimulus.
In which environments do bacteria live?
Bacteria are the single-celled organisms, belong to the class prokaryotes. The bacterial cell does not contain organelles except a nucleoid region. Their cell wall has peptidoglycans and they reproduce by binary fission.
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