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What is the habitat of Escherichia coli?


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Escherichia coli:

  1. E.coli are rod-shaped, gram-negative bacteria.
  2. They can appear in pairs or singly arranged.
  3. Its envelope is composed of layers – peptidoglycan, cytoplasmic membrane, and outer membrane.
  4. The colony morphology is identified as either a rough or a smooth form.
  5. E.coli are prokaryotic, anaerobic, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacteria belonging to the bacteria domain and Escherichia genus.
  6. The habitat of E.coli is in the intestines of warm-blooded animals.

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