Multiple choice

Which of the following cellular structures represents bacterial microcompartments?

  1. Acanthosome

  2. Aurosome

  3. Carboxysome

  4. Catalysome

  5. Cercidosome
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Carboxysome is an inclusion body, present in some blue-green algae and autotrophic bacteria, that contains the enzyme ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase and that functions in the fixation of carbon dioxide by these organisms.

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