Cell walls (inclusions and atypicals)

Magnetosomes

Iron oxide

Metachromatic granules (volutin)

Phosphate reserves

Polysaccharide granules

Energy reserves

Lipid inclusions

Energy reserves

Sulfur granules

Energy reserves

Carboxysomes

Ribose 1 5-diphosphate carboxylase for CO2 fixation

Gas vacuoles

Protein-covered cylinders

Acid-fast cell walls

Waxy lipid (mycolic acid) bound to peptidoglycan

gram pos

More resistant to infiltration/ hard to get rid of

Mycobacterium ex)

Leprosy

Nocardia

Face eating bacterium

Mycoplasms

No cell walls

Can’t survive alone

Sterols in plasma membrane

Archaea

Walls are pseudomurein

Divisome

Chromosome replication

Fts proteins

Can divide

Endospores

Resting cells (Bacillus, clostridium)

Botulism (don’t feed baby honey)

Sporulation

Endosperm formation

Germination

Return to vegetative state