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''quorum sensing'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260708194133-00-⌔
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quorum sensing (uncountable)
- A proposed method of communication between bacterial cells by the release and sensing of small diffusible signal molecules.
- ✤ An early case of quorum sensing to be uncovered involves—appropriately for this book—the sea and a cephalopod.1
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2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins, published 2018, page 18: ↩
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