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Definition of Purple bacteria
1. Noun. Free-living Gram-negative pink to purplish-brown bacteria containing bacteriochlorophyll.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purple Bacteria
Literary usage of Purple bacteria
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"purple bacteria. One very remarkable kind of color-bacteria deserves especial
... Such bacteria are known as purple bacteria and they have the ability to ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Engelmann showed, for instance, that these red-purple bacteria collect in the
ultra-red ... In the case of these red-purple bacteria the colouring matter is ..."
3. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead Macfarlane (1918)
"Since it has been shown also that the purple bacteria, like green plants, set
free oxygen during daylight, it may be that these are the forms which yield us ..."
4. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1916)
"The view of Engelmann, however, that the pigment is similar to chlorophyl and
that the purple bacteria, like the green plants, give off oxygen in the ..."
5. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1914)
"The view of Engelmann, however, that the pigment is similar to chlorophyl and
that the purple bacteria, like the green plants, give off oxygen in the ..."
6. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1914)
"The view of Engelmann, however, that the pigment is similar to chlorophyl and
that the purple bacteria, like the green plants, give off oxygen in the ..."
7. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by Edwin Oakes Jordan (1918)
"The view of Engelmann, however, that the pigment is similar to chlorophyl and
that the purple bacteria, like the green plants, give off oxygen in the ..."
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