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quorum sensing

process in which single-celled organisms monitor their population density by detecting the concentration of small, diffusible signal molecules produced by the cells themselves.
Class type of: cell-cell signaling, detection of cell density Q905754

Facts

3 properties
Instance of
biological process
Subclass of
cell-cell signaling, detection of cell density[2][3]
Part of
psychological terminology[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en quorum sensing en GO:0009372 en quorum sensing system ar استشعار النصاب es Detección de quórum es Deteccion de quorum fr Détection du quorum fr Quorum Sensing he חוש מניין he חישת סף he חישת צפיפות hu sűrűségérzékelés hu denzitásérzékelés hu lokális denzitásérzékelés ja クオラム・センシング ja クオラムセンシング ko 정족수 감지 nl Mucoide conversie nl Mucoïde conversie ro detectare a cvorumului
🔖 Identifiers · 12
OpenAlex ID
C118687296, C2908737351
BBC Things ID
fc8ecda3-7ad4-4fde-9d27-001ed4042c54
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/quorum-sensing
Exact match
purl.obolibrary.org
Freebase ID
/m/015hb_
Gene Ontology ID
GO:0009372
JSTOR topic ID (archived)
quorum-sensing
MeSH descriptor ID
D053038
MeSH tree code
G06.550.700, G04.085.700
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
118687296
Quora topic ID
Quorum-Sensing-1
UMLS CUI
C1154599

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biological process
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Summary

quorum sensing is a biological process[1].

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  1. [2] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2022-07-01. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Gene Ontology release 2022-07-01. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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