Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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ISBN: 9780393615098
Author: John W. Foster, Joan L. Slonczewski
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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The process by which Mycoplasma genitalium makes its cell membrane and a way to test this process.

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Mycoplasma genitalium is a parasitic bacterium that has the smallest genome out of any bacteria. This parasite might originate from the degenerative evolution of a Gram-positive bacteria. The evolution that leads a species to resemble the features of their primitive is referred to as degenerative evolution.

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