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Quorum sensing

Quorum sensing allows bacteria to sense the local density of bacterial cells. This is possible because cells of many bacterial species secrete small molecules that can be detected by other bacterial cells. The concentration of these signaling molecules is used in quorum sensing[1]

References

  1. Campbell, Neil A., and Jane B. Reece. Biology. San Francisco: Benjamin Cummings, 2002. Print.