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Consider this microscopic image of bacteria.

A microscopic image of bacteria is shown. The bacteria is made up of 2 connected spherical shapes.
Which bacterial form is shown in the image?
bacillus
nucleoid
spirillum
coccus

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Coccus — specifically a diplococcus (two connected spherical bacteria). It's spherical, unlike bacilli (rods) or spirilla (spirals), and "nucleoid" is not a cell shape.