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Grade 12Botany

Why mycoplasma known as PPLO that is pleuro pneumonia like

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9 Years agoGrade 12
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9 Years ago
Mycoplasma is an bacteria like prokaryotic organism.
It lacs the cellwall which makes them seperate organism,so they are seperated from the group bacteriaea and named them as PPLO.

PPLO means pneumonia causing mycoplasma.