Genes that make bacteria make up their minds
Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 23:21
in Biology & Nature
Bacteria are single cell organisms with no nervous system or brain. So how do individual bacterial cells living as part of a complex community called a biofilm "decide" between different physiological processes (such as movement or producing the "glue" that forms the biofilm)?
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