Problem
Activity: Read the abstract in the link below and answer the guided questions.
Guided Questions:
I. What is Clostridium botulinum? Explain.
II. What is Clostridium tetani? Explain.
III. Is Clostridium botulinum and Clostridium tetani the same? Why or why not? Justify.
IV. What does it give to our bodies? Is it healthy or not? Justify.
V. Why is it responsible for flaccid and spastic paralysis?
VI. What is the diversity of Clostridial Neurotoxins and Neurotoxigenic Bacterial Strains?
VII. Does sigma factors that are required for controlling house-keeping genes, alternative sigma factors are involved in controlling growth phase transitions? Why or why not? Justify
VIII. How is neurotoxin synthesis linked to the general metabolism?