Course : B.

Pharma Branch : NA Year/Semester : III Semester By : Abhishek Agrawal

MICROBIOLOGY
MORPHOLOGY OF BACTERIA

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CONTENTS

1. INTRODUCTION

2. SIZE OF BACTERIA

3. SHAPE OF BACTERIA

4. ARRANGEMENTS OF BACTERIAL CELL

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INTRODUCTION
• It is a unicellular, free living, microscopic microorganism
capable of performing all essential functions of life.

• They possess both DNA and RNA.

• They are prokaryotic microorganism.

• They occur in food, soil, water and all natural environment.

• They can survive extremes of temperature, pH, oxygen and

atmospheric pressure.

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SIZE OF BACTERIA

• Bacteria are very small microorganism which are visible under the
microscope.

• Most of the bacteria approximately 0.5μm to 1μm.

• High surface area accounts for higher rate of growth and

metabolism of bacteria.

• An electron microscope is used for clear visualization of internal

structure of bacteria.

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SHAPE OF BACTERIA
On the basis of shape bacteria are classified as:

• Cocci

• Bacilli

• Vibrios

• Spirilla

• Spirochaetes

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SHAPE OF BACTERIA

COCCI

• Cocci are small, spherical or oval cell.

• It is derived from Greek word “Kokkos” means berry.

E.g: staphylococcus, micrococcus, streptococcus

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SHAPE OF BACTERIA

Bacilli

• They are straight rod shaped cell.

• It is derived from Greek word “Bacillus” means stick.

• In some of the bacilli the length of the cell may be equal to width.
such bacilli are known as coccobacilli (E.g. Brucella, Brucella
canis)

E.g. Lactobacillus, Hay bacillus, Anthrax bacterium

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SHAPE OF BACTERIA

Vibrios

• They are comma shaped curved rods.

• It is a genus of gram negative bacteria

• It’s cause foodborne infection

• E.g. Vibrios fortis, Vibrios gallicus, Vibrious lentus

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SHAPE OF BACTERIA

Spirilla

• They have a helical shape.

• They are enlarge rigid cell with several curves or coils.

E.g. Spirillum volutans

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SHAPE OF BACTERIA

Spirochaete

• They are slender and spiral form

• They contain double membrane

• They have corkscrew shaped

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ARRANGEMENT OF BACTERIAL CELL

Cocci appears as several arrangement or grouping such as:

• Diplococci

• Streptococci

• Tertracocci

• Staphylococci

• Sarcinae

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ARRANGEMENT OF BACTERIAL CELL

Diplococci

The cell divide in one plane and remain attached in pairs.

E.g. diplococcus pneumoniae

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ARRANGEMENT OF BACTERIAL CELL

Streptococci

The cell divide in one plane and remain attached to form chains.

coccus streptococci

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ARRANGEMENT OF BACTERIAL CELL

Tetracocci

The cell divide in two planes and characteristically form groups of four cell.

coccus Tetracocci

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ARRANGEMENT OF BACTERIAL CELL

Staphylococci

The cell divide in three planes in an irregular pattern producing

bunches of cocci.

coccus staphylococci

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ARRANGEMENT OF BACTERIAL CELL

Sarcinae

cells divide in three planes in a regular pattern producing a cuboidal

arrangement of cells.

Coccus Sarcinae

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ARRANGEMENT OF BACTERIAL CELL

• Spherical is called to coccus.
• Division along the same plane forms
chain: 2 cocci together- Diplococcus

• 4-22 in chains – Streptococcus

• Division along two different planes-

Tetrads

• Division along 3 planes regularly-

Sarcinae

• Division along 3 planes irregularly-

Staphylococci
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Thank You!

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