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What is a cell wall?

What is a cell wall? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (cytology) A thick, fairly rigid, layer formed around individual cells of bacteria, Archaea, fungi, plants, and algae (but not animals and other protists which generally have cell membranes without cell walls). The cell wall is external to the cell membrane and serves a structural function helping the cell maintain its shape and protecting the cell from damage.
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Fungal cells maintain a very high turgor pressure, so the integrity of the cell wall is a critical matter.
Cellulose microfibrils within the guard cell wall are considered radial if they are oriented in the same way as the dotted lines.
Proteins involved with cell wall biogenesis, which display low connectivity levels, have a clear trend of later appearance.
Ribitol teichoic acid is an important component of Staphylococcus aureus cell wall.
This would also increase the sloughing off of cell wall surface polymers in the culture medium.
After the patient takes the antibiotic, it is absorbed through the cell wall of the bacterium.

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