quorum sensing
English
Noun
quorum sensing (uncountable)
- A proposed method of communication between bacterial cells by the release and sensing of small diffusible signal molecules.
- 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins 2018, p. 18:
- An early case of quorum sensing to be uncovered involves—appropriately for this book—the sea and a cephalopod.
- 2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds, William Collins 2018, p. 18: