SCIENCE
VIRUS AND BACTERIA
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Question
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Rods
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Spheres
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Spirals
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Springs
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Detailed explanation-1: -The three basic shapes of bacteria are bacillus (rod-shaped), coccus (spherical-shaped), and spirillum (spiral-shaped).
Detailed explanation-2: -Bacteria occur in a variety of shapes like spherical, rod, spiral, sheathed, stalked, filamentous, square, star, spindle, lobed. Triangular bacteria have not been discovered yet. Q.
Detailed explanation-3: -Spirillum (plural, spirilla). A bacterium with rigid spiral (helical) structure (not easily band, not flexible), thick, long, and move with flagella, 6–15 m long and spiral in shape is called spirillum.
Detailed explanation-4: -Bacteria are classified into five groups according to their basic shapes: spherical (cocci), rod (bacilli), spiral (spirilla), comma (vibrios) or corkscrew (spirochaetes).