How many different shapes of bacteria are there?

1 shape

2 shapes

3 shapes

4 shapes

Your answer is 3 shapes. They are cocci, bacilli and spirilla.

When we are classifying bacteria we do so in several ways, by measuring their Gram level, and another one being shape of the bacterium.

There are three shapes of Bacteria. Cocci is used to describe round bacterium. Baccili is used to describe those that rod shaped. And lastly Spirillia is used to describe spiral shaped bacterium.