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Motility,via flagella, is metabolically expensive for the cell.Microbiologists have noticed that many motile cells have storagepolymers in their cytoplasm. Also while not all motile cells areGram negative, the majority are. What role would storage polymersand a Gram negative cell structure play in motility?

A highconcentration of protons is maintained where in the prokaryoticcell and why?

In the periplasm where protonscan cross the cell membrane (in response to a proton gradient) andenter the cell's cytoplasm
Outside of the outer membranein order to establish a high to low concentration with the cell'speriplasm where ATP is made
In the cytoplasm to be able tosupport ATP production by the mitochondria
In the cell wall to facilitateactive nutrient transport across the wall

For each of thefollowing pairs, predict whether you would expect them to co-occurin the same cell at the same time or not. Explain youranswer.

Gas vesicles andglycocalyx

Storage polymersand glycocalyx

Sex pilus and gasvesicles

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1 Motility is a energy consuming process and it require high amount of ATP to do their function The stored polymer in the cytoplasm undergoes glycolysis and produce lot of ATP molecules This ATP are used by the    See Answer
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