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Bacterial Shapes & Arrangements

A bacterium is named by two things you can see down a microscope: its shape and the pattern its cells fall into after they divide. Pick one of each and watch the name build itself.

Cocci

1000× oil-immersion field · cells ≈ 1 µm
Build a bacteriumchoose a shape, then an arrangement
Cell shape
Arrangement after division