A bacillishaped microorganism is part of the normal flora of

A bacilli-shaped microorganism is part of the normal flora of a termite and helps the termite in digestion of the wood that it eats. It lives aerobically. What components might this microbe contain in order to survive in the termite?

Solution

This specific question asks about the symabiotic relationship which ateks place between a termite and its gut microbes, generally flagellates. The synergystic association benefits both and in the mean process they basically survive well associated with each other.

Wood as the food for the termite generally contains cellulose as its main substnace, so when termite eats that cellulose it needs to get digested by some exzymes, there the bacilli shaped microbes helps the termite by breaking down the cellulose into its basic components of carboxymethyl cellulose. From the MreB we can say have the potential to help digest the cellulose molecule. As MreB protein in bacteria is like a action homologe. Also the protein FtsZ helps in bacterial cell division could b ehlpful here. So the final answer would be MreB and FtsZ both will help the bacteria survive inside the termite.