Listeria monocytogenes is a species of rod-shaped bacteria. How would L. monocytogenes be affected if its actin-like cytoskeletal proteins were no longer functional?

A. It will be less efficient at exchanging materials with its environment.
B. It will be able to store more nutrients.
C. It will be able to secrete mucilage and aggregate as part of a biofilm.
D. It will no longer be able to undergo binary fission for reproduction.
E. It will become a spirochaete.


A. It will be less efficient at exchanging materials with its environment.

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