Bacteria can have a 'sense of smell'

Monday, August 16, 2010 - 23:28 in Biology & Nature

Bacteria are well-known to be the cause of some of the most repugnant smells on earth, but now scientists have revealed this lowest of life forms actually has a sense of smell of its own. A team of marine microbiologists has discovered that bacteria have a molecular "nose".

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