
Why is QUORUM SENSING among bacteria important?
- SivaPriya
A bacteria try to make contact or sense with other bacterial cells in order to coordinate with each other, this is called Quorum Sensing. It improves their survival. Many bacteria come together in one particular place which is enough to form a quorum so that the number of members have to vote for a certain issue in a procedure like parliamentary procedure, then they will communicate with each other through chemical messages (called "quorum sensing"). It is a certain arrangement with which every cell can find out what type and (to a certain extent) how many cells are present around it. So many species of bacteria use this procedure of QS to coordinate with other cells according to the quantity of their nearest population.
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