Question

What is meant by mycoplasma

Answer 1

Answer:

any of a group of small typically parasitic bacteria that lack cell walls and sometimes cause diseases.

Answer 2

Mycoplasmas:

1. The Mycoplasmas are organisms that completely lack a cell wall and are pleomorphic.
2. They are the smallest living cells known and can survive without oxygen.
3. Many mycoplasmas are pathogenic in animals and plants.
4. They were previously called pleuropneumonia like organisms.
5. They cause witches broom in plants, pleuropneumonia in cattle and Mycoplasmal urethritis in humans.