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Imagine you take a gentle scraping of epithelial cheek cells and perform a Gram stain on them. Predict the result in terms of the Gram stain. Does this mean you are a Gram negative or Gram positive organism, or are you something else? Explain.

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No it doesn't mean we are gram +ve or gram -ve, gram staining is done for bacteria's.

Step-by-step explanation:

Gram staining used to detect the skin infections caused due to bacteria. Gram stain is coloured purple.if bacteria stay purple they are gram positive & if bacteria turns pink or red they are Gram Negative.

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