The contamination cleanup strategy called bioremediation—using naturally occurring or genetically modified microbes to clean up our messes—is gaining steam, as scientists devise new ways to use bugs against mercury, oil spills, radioactive waste and more.
Answer:
Because older cultures of gram-positive bacteria tend to lose their ability to retain crystal-violet in the peptidoglycan of their cell walls and can be confused with gram-negative bacteria.
Explanation:
Gram staining is used to differentiate between two major groups of bacteria. Gram-positive and gram-negative, these bacteria differ in the amount of peptidoglycan in their cell walls. Gram-positive bacteria have a higher amount of peptidoglycan, which absorbs the violet crystal complex used in gram staining, staining them purple/violet. Old cultures of gram-positive bacteria tend to lose the ability to retain the violet crystal and are stained by safranine, staining them red/pink and appear to be gram-negative.
Answer:
Insecta
Explanation:
The classification levels are the following from broadest to the most specific:
Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species
In your selection it is listed in that order:
Domain --- Eukarya
Kingdom --- Animalia
Phylum --- Arthropoda
Class --- Insecta
Order --- Hymenoptera
Family --- Apidae
Genus --- Apis
Species --- Mellifera
When you name the organism, we use the two name or binary naming system, getting the genus and the species. So the scientific name of the honey bee is: Apis mellifera
