Question

Reticulate and elementary bodies are two forms of A. Mycoplasma. B. Caulobacter. C. Chlamydia. D. Myxobacteria.

Answer 1

Answer:

C. Chlamydia. is the correct answer.

Explanation:

Chlamydia is a bacterial sexually transmitted disease, caused by obligate intracellular Chlamydia trachomatis.

In the life of chlamydia, there are two stages of developmental(Reticulate and elementary bodies are two forms of Chlamydia.)

The elementary body is the infectious substance, they are non replicating and have a rigid outer membrane that binds to the receptors present on the host cell and it initiates the infection and due to the rigid outer membrane there, no fusion between the phagosome and the lysosome hence oppose the intracellular killing.

Reticulate bodies are the metabolically active form of a chlamydia and non-infectious.