In your laboratory, you are growing a bacterial strain that develops a mutation so that its...

In your laboratory, you are growing a bacterial strain that develops a mutation so that its normal crescentin protein does not function. You continue to culture this bacteria and it develops a second mutation so that its normal MreB protein does not function.

(1) What is the original cell shape, and the shape after the first mutation? Explain your answers based on the function of the cytoskeletal proteins. '

(2) What is the cell shape after the second mutation? Explain your answers based on the function of the cytoskeletal proteins. '

(3) After the second mutation, will the cell still be able to divide? Why or why not?

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Both crescentin and mreB are cytoskeletal proteins.

gladiator answered 1 year ago

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