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Bacterium vs Mycoplasma - What's the difference?

bacterium | mycoplasma |

As nouns the difference between bacterium and mycoplasma

is that bacterium is (microbiology) a single celled organism with no nucleus while mycoplasma is any infectious bacterium of the genus mycoplasma , often specifically.

bacterium

English

Noun

(bacteria)
  • (microbiology) A single celled organism with no nucleus.
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    Usage notes

    * In most formal writing, . This is usually considered incorrect.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Hypernyms

    * prokaryote

    Derived terms

    * eubacterium * archaebacterium / archebacterium

    External links

    * (wikipedia "bacterium")

    See also

    * bacillus English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    mycoplasma

    English

    (wikipedia mycoplasma) (wikispecies)

    Noun

  • Any infectious bacterium of the genus Mycoplasma , often specifically
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  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-03
    • , author= , title=The Smallest Cell , volume=101, issue=2, page=83 , magazine= citation , passage=It is likely that the long evolutionary trajectory of Mycoplasma went from a reductive autotroph to oxidative heterotroph to a cell-wall–defective degenerate parasite. This evolutionary trajectory assumes the simplicity to complexity route of biogenesis, a point of view that is not universally accepted.}}