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14 years ago
Describe in 3 sentences how endospore formation is controlled by a regulatory system in prokaryotic cells.

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- There is signal that is detected due to some environmental factor such a nutrient starvation. The mother cell will synthesize genes required to form endospore. since it's formed, the mother cell will die but the daughter cell will survive.
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When a bacterium detects environmental conditions are becoming unfavourable, the mother cell will synthesize genes required to form endospore via a process called endosporulation. Since it's formed, the mother cell will die but the daughter cell will survive. They will germinate within a day or two with the right environmental conditions, and then the vegetative cells can be straightforwardly destroyed.

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