If you could stick a microscopic pin into the center of a bacterium,what would the order of the structures you would encounter from the outside in?
A) capsule, cell wall, plasma membrane, cytoplasm
B) cell wall, capsule, plasma membrane, cytoplasm
C) plasma membrane, cell wall, capsule, cytoplasm
D) cell wall, plasma membrane, capsule, cytoplasm
E) capsule, plasma membrane, cell wall, cytoplasm

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The correct order from the outside in is capsule, cell wall, plasma membrane, cytoplasm. The capsule is the outermost layer, followed by the cell wall, then the plasma membrane, and finally the cytoplasm inside the bacterium.

If You Could Stick a Microscopic Pin into the Center