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Name: Amber
Status: Student
Age: 17
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Date: 2002
Question:
Do gram negative and gram positive cell walls give a bacteria a general polarity, making a gram negative cell hydrophobic and a gram positive cell hydrophilic?


Replies:
No, the term Gram positive and negative have nothing to do with charge. They are used to describe the response of bacterial cells to a staining procedure developed by Gram. If the bacteria stain dark purple one calls them Gram-positive, if they are red one calls them 'negative'. Read more about Gram staining at

http://www2.austin.cc.tx.us/microbugz/12gramstain.html

Trudy Wassenaar


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