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Mycoplasma vs. Bacteria — What's the Difference?

Mycoplasma vs. Bacteria — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Mycoplasma and Bacteria

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Mycoplasma

Mycoplasma (plural mycoplasmas or mycoplasmata) is a genus of bacteria that lack a cell wall around their cell membranes. This characteristic makes them naturally resistant to antibiotics that target cell wall synthesis (like the beta-lactam antibiotics).

Bacteria

Bacteria ( (listen); common noun bacteria, singular bacterium) are a type of biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms.

Mycoplasma

Any of a group of small typically parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and sometimes cause diseases.

Bacteria

Plural of bacterium.

Mycoplasma

Any of various extremely small bacteria of the genus Mycoplasma that lack cell walls, are usually nonmotile, and are often pathogenic or parasitic in mammals.
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Bacteria

(US) A type, species, or strain of bacterium.

Mycoplasma

Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma, often specifically Mycoplasma pneumoniae

Bacteria

Alternative form of bacterium.

Mycoplasma

The smallest self-reproducing prokaryote; lacks a cell wall and can survive without oxygen; can cause pneumonia and urinary tract infection

Bacteria

Lowlife, slob (could be treated as plural or singular).

Bacteria

An oval bacterium, as distinguished from a spherical coccus or rod-shaped bacillus.

Bacteria

See Bacterium.

Bacteria

(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered plants

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