Fig. 29: Transmission Electron Micrograph of a Prokaryotic Cell (Bacillus megaterium)

This streptobacillus is undergoing binary fission. The nucleoid has already divided and constriction of the cytoplasmic membrane and synthesis of a peptidoglycan septum at the divisome is occuring.

Electronmicrograph of a Bacillus species.
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