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Practice - 4.3: Identify the different types of bacterial cell wal...
Q 4.382: Select the correct statement.
A
Autolysin is found in small vesicles that stay inside gram-positive cells waiting for invaders.
B
Autolysin degrades the peptidoglycan of neighboring unrelated bacteria.
C
Autolysin allows gram-positive cells to use nutrients from competing bacteria that it
destroys.
D
Autolysin is an enzyme made by gram-positive cells.

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The answer is B because Autolysin is a bacteriolytic enzymes that digest the cell- wall peptidoglycan of the bacteria that produce them.
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