Structure of a Gram-Positive Cell Wall
Gram-positive bacteria stain purple with the gram stain procedure.
The Gram-positive cell wall appears as dense layer typically composed of numerous rows of peptidoglycan, and molecules of lipoteichoic acid, wall teichoic acid and surface proteins.
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