This type of community is held together by extracurricular p

This type of community is held together by extracurricular polymeric substances and controls the local enviroinment.

a. capsule

b. biofilm

c. glycoalyx

d. fruiting body

Solution

It is a biofilm

Bacterial community held together by polymeric, sticky substances so that any external chemical or toxic substance or any antibiotic can penetrate easily so as to maintain constant internal local environmental conditions.

Also capsule and glycocalyx are the covers of individual cells and not that of community.

Whereas fruiting body contains spores of the fungi.